The audio is on the fritz for the people at home.

They're trying to rectify that.

We can hear each other in the chamber, but unfortunately, for those watching on Zoom and on Teams, I'm sorry, on YouTube, the audio is not coming through.

So if you just have a few more minutes and we'll try to control shit.

Okay, Mr.

Mayor, I believe the audio is working again.

Okay.

Thank you, Rich.

So it's my pleasure to um present this proclamation.

Uh, National Public Works Week is uh next week, May 7th.

Thank you.

May 17th through the 23rd.

And um, whereas public works professionals focus on infrastructure facilities and services that are of vital importance to sustainable and resilient communities and to the public health, high quality of life and well-being of the people of South San Francisco.

Whereas these infrastructure facilities and services could not be provided without the dedicated efforts of public works professionals, who are engineers, managers, and employees at all levels of government and the private sector, who are responsible for rebuilding, improving and protecting our nation's transportation, water supply, water treatment, and solid waste systems.

Public buildings and other structures and facilities essential for our citizens, and whereas it is in the public interest for the citizens, civic leaders and children in South San Francisco to gain knowledge of and to maintain an ongoing interest and understanding of the importance of public works and public works programs in their respective communities.

And whereas the year 2026 marks the sixty-sixth annual National Public Works Week sponsored by the American Public Works Association.

And in ceremonies designed to pay tribute to our public works professionals, engineers, managers, and employees, and to recognize the substantial contributions they make to protecting our national health, safety, and quality of life for all.

Professionalism, pride, and commitment on behalf of the entire public works team.

Thank you again for the recognition and continued support of the important work our team does for the community.

Moving on to item number two is a proclamation recognizing May as Mental Health Awareness Month.

And uh because of his commitment to building mental health awareness, um, you know, throughout our city and and indeed the county and work that he has done uh professionally uh in his career.

I've asked um Eddie Flores to present this mental health.

Thank you, thank you, Mr.

Mayor.

Um, very proud to uh share um and take a moment to recognize May as mental health awareness month.

And it shouldn't just be one month, it should be all year round.

And how I like to um underscore and underline um mental health is is health.

It's it's part of our daily being and well-being.

And here in San Mateo County, this month is uh dedicated to increasing not only our understanding, but really truly reducing stigma and reminding each other that mental health is an essential part of our daily lives.

This year, our county theme is mental health is for everyone.

Uh unidos por la salud mental.

It is powerful, it is touching, it calls upon all of us to stand together to make space for every voice and to ensure that support is accessible and it is culturally responsive for all of our communities.

Uh, the green ribbon that you probably have seen some colleagues here and and some folks uh wear, it it is uh something that symbolizes symbolizes commitment.

It represents hope, it represents healing and the courage that it takes to talk openly about mental health.

When someone wears a green ribbon, they are telling those around them you're not alone, you matter, your story deserves care and understanding.

And it is a reminder that recovery is possible and that compassion can be life-changing as well.

Uh this evening we're also um uh joined by uh two of our counties' behavioral health commission.

And this is important because many folks uh perhaps know or not know what the behavioral health commission really focuses on and works on, but I can tell you from a professional standpoint um everything from grants, everything to funding uh not only our children and our youth, but also mental health services uh and community organizations that help seniors with mental health, that help men of color with mental health as well.

I was uh very uh fortunate to start a center that uh was uh funded by the statewide uh mental behavioral health commission, and that's Alcove, which now has over 12 different centers throughout uh California, including one here in San Mateo, another one in the coast, another one in Palo Alto.

Um, and it is through the work again that the San Mateo County Behavioral Health Commission continues.

Um, this past Saturday, myself and two other council members, we have been working together to what's been uh kind of formally recognized as the mayor's mental health initiative here in San Mateo County.

This was started about five years ago in order to bring awareness uh to mental health at a local level here at a county level.

Uh, for the first time ever, it's never really been done here.

Um, I will say in the state of California, through associations that support elected officials or school board members or even uh board of supervisors.

We held a training, a mental health training for elected officials.

Um, and it was supported and sponsored by uh board president Samateo County Supervisor Noelia Corso, and we had over 30 elected officials, city council members as well as mayors, as well as school board members who were uh part of this uh kind of inaugural cohort, if you will.

It was uh provided and facilitator by licensed clinicians, um, and it was uh very uh uh moving to see many of us be in a space where we could share some of the difficulties.

Many times when you're in leadership, you assume that we are uh not affected by by mental health or or uh this doesn't affect us in it and it does.

So it was uh it was really powerful to be there.

I want to thank my colleague, council member Nicholas for also supporting and the others.

This will be one of many, and we hope that uh many others will join on um and be part of it.

And it was also part again through the support of the San Mateo County Behavioral Health Commission.

Um, and tonight I want to recognize uh Commissioner Yukon Ng, uh co-vice chair of the Samateo County Behavioral Health Commission.

Her dedication really reflects the county's mission to live stigma to strengthen access and build a behavioral health system that is rooted in dignity and equity and whole person care.

Uh she has a strong advocate for ensuring that the voices of those with lived experience are centered in our policies and our voices.

Uh so I want to recognize uh also Ms.

Kanoko N, whose support and steady presence strengthens this work in meaningful ways.

We would not be able to do this work and recognize this without everyone, truly everyone, because mental health, like I said, is for everyone.

So if you could please join me and give a warm hand in welcoming Samitel Behavioral Health Commissioner Ng and Ms.

Ng to the podium.

Good evening, honorable mayor, council members, city managers, staff, and residents of South San Francisco.

I'm Yoko Eng, and I used a pronoun she, her.

I'm here representing the behavioral health commission.

The San Mattel County Behavioral Health Commission is committed to the goals of promoting wellness and recovery, enhancing public awareness and knowledge of mental health and substance use conditions, and eliminating stigma.

Thank you to the city of South San Francisco for proclaiming May 2026 as Mental Health Month.

And uh I think council member um Flores has mentioned about Lime Green, so I'll skip that.

Mental health month is important to me because mental health touches many parts of our lives from our relationships with others to what makes us feel fulfilled and how we deal with life's challenges.

Um starting today, I invite everyone to act on one or more of the following options.

Number one, wear a lime green ribbon, wear one physically on your clothing or virtually on your social media profile.

This can start a conversation to sharing your knowledge about mental health.

And number two, learn more about mental health resources available to you by visiting 988, Lifeline.org.

And number three, lastly, attend or host a mental health awareness event in your community by visiting the county website, smc health.org slash mh.

There's two upcoming events I want to share with you all.

There's one on May 14th at 5 p.m., located at 1633 Ode Bay Shore Highway, suite 160 in Burlingame.

And that's is seeing through stigma panel.

And the other one is on May 27th at 6 to 8 p.m.

Located at Cafe Zoe at 1929 Manelto Avenue in Manlo Park.

And this is a public events, it's mental health open mic, so we can learn more about um family members, um, uh consumers, and just about our community.

And lastly, thank you so much to the uh South San Francisco community for recognizing May Mental Health Month.

Thank you.

So that completes our presentations.

That completes our presentations.

Moving on to council comments request honoring the life of requests.

Um I actually um tonight I'd like to um lead off um uh I think many of us um in in the city family um know uh Mary Ann Spidiashi.

She's been an administrative assistant and the chief of police's well, numerous chief of police offices over the years.

And recently, she lost her mom, Clementina Pianca Lunardi.

Yes, she was Italian, Clementina Pianca Lunardi.

And she made 93 years of age, born in 1933.

And if you've been around South San Francisco for a good amount of time, you remember that the original Kaiser Hospital was at the corner of Spruce and Grand Avenue, and that's where she was born.

She passed away just uh this last March the 23rd.

Uh she graduated from South San Francisco and high school in 1950.

She went to work immediately at the um uh the Bank of Italy at the time, which later became the Bank of America, and she stayed and worked there, retiring in 1985.

So she was a lifelong resident of this town, very proud to be in San Franciscan and raised a wonderful woman who has been indispensable for those that lead our police department.

So I just wanted to make mention of her, and then um I wanted to share with the council um we have visitors.

You know, our sister city committee has been very active over the last couple years.

Uh last year, um, the mayor, Mayor Flores, was able to travel to Japan.

I think it was his first time there, and um and he enjoyed it uh greatly.

Um when the group came um this uh this week, there were 20 um people uh in the delegation from Kishiwata, Japan, and they immediately when they walked into City Hall, they recognized somebody on the wall and and ran up and pointed them out, and it was the former mayor because he had just been in Japan, so he's remembered um all good stuff from from what they said, and then they are um they will be here through uh the week.

Um, and they do take a little time out of South San Francisco because when you come all the way from Japan, you really do want to see Yosemite.

So that's where they are heading to next.

And uh I just wanted to share that.

You know, the the sister cities um uh goes back.

Uh the Kishiwata um relationship goes back to um 1992, and it was um a mayor then John Penner who set that up.

So it's still very much alive, and there are young people that will be going, students that will be going to Japan this year uh with chaperones and uh and then the following year Japanese students will come here.

So it's very it's uh it keeps going and it's a great situation.

So that's my report for tonight.

And uh now I'll turn to um the woman at the dais if you'd like to uh make a report.

Thank you, Mayor.

First, I would like to um greet our police department national it's happy national police week, make 10 to the 16th, and then also I would like to commend uh Greg Mediati for the very prompt response on uh the issue.

Uh everyone knows that we're renovating the uh restrooms in Orange Park, and uh because of that we closed it from for uh since May 5th, and uh we have some port a potty issue during the weekend, and it's resolved now.

Everything should be fine.

Um so thank you for that very prompt response.

Um April 23rd, I was uh fortunate to attend El Camino dance show.

Thank you to Miss Feliciana Stevenson, the dance director there, and congratulations to the dancers uh who performed.

And also talking about Kishiwada, we also I was with a delegation from South City right after Mayor Flores was there.

We went there last September for the expo, and uh that was really a great and last night's dinner was really wonderful.

Um they they said that they have three sister cities, and um they said we are their favorite, of course.

Um on April 24th, we had the Ata Tunilka delegation here.

Is one of our five sister cities also, and so we also have to thank uh the Benavides brothers who really uh championed uh even the soccer game that uh took place at uh South San Francisco High School.

We also would like to thank our former city clerk um Sylvia Payne for making it possible uh to have the uh exhibition uh of the American Revolution experience uh through the daughters of American Revolution.

And then on the 25th of April, we also celebrated in South San Francisco uh Arbor Day, and in the last 50 years that we have been celebrating Arbor Day here, 37 of those years we had been proclaimed tree city, and that was because we annually uh plant 50 to 100 trees, making um making sure that we are committed to having a healthy urban forest here in South San Francisco.

I would like to commend, of course, our Parks and Rec staff, especially Josh Richardson, our Parks and Rec commissioners, and the improving public places committee.

So the planting of those trees occurred on the Sister Cities Park, and in the Sister Cities Park, they have sectioned it into having trees uh coming from our five sister cities.

I think the last one will be the uh Posig City in the Philippines because they're still looking for trees that are growing in the Philippines that would be able to be sustained here.

But the uh planting was really great, and we are having a bigger tree planting um in November.

Uh and then right after that, I also would like to congratulate also school for the bazaar.

And then on April 30th, again, thank you, Greg, for partnering with Futures on the Field, Futures in the on the field, South San Francisco is a partnership with the Samoan, Samoan Solutions, Asian American Recovery Services, County Office of Education, and this is transforming the playing spaces into innovation incubators for our youth so that they will uh further leadership and dialogue, building resilience for them and generating various uh various visions for the future.

So this is a really great thing.

It occurred uh right after the South San Francisco Higher Education Scholarship event at the Bass Cultural, where we in South San Francisco Chamber of Commerce awarded 50 high school seniors residents of South San Francisco with scholarships.

On May 9th, like uh Councilmember Flores said, um, I uh belong to the first cohort of the mental health training for local health officials.

It's called Be Sensitive, Be Brave.

And like they said, you know, if you don't have it, you won't be able to give it.

So I I think uh it's a great realization that our job is not easy and and acknowledgement that sometimes we have to fill our buckets too.

And um, it was really wonderful to hear uh the experiences of uh other elected officials because I don't think uh anybody else could understand what we go through.

Because we're also human beings, right?

We also feel and uh also uh last May 9th uh I did the storytelling, the Filipino storytelling, and uh I'm working with Valerie.

Hopefully we can move it around again because I found out that at 2 p.m.

It's a little bit, it's been a while since I have a little toddler, and so the mothers who were there were saying that the 2 p.m.

on a Saturday is nap time, and so maybe we should find another um another time to do our storytelling, and then also I would like to request that our meeting be um be joined in memory of the following Rose Marie Shakuti.

Uh she is, she was a wife uh to Charlie Shakuti for 50 years and mother of Lieutenant Ken Shikuti of our police department.

Virgilio Raval, um he is a he was a resident here in South San Francisco.

He had a long battle with various illnesses for 47 years, and uh because of showing to show gratitude to all of the medical professionals who had helped him, he donated his body to science.

And then unfortunately, one person also who was nine days short of his 90th birthday passed away due to the injuries that he sustained while crossing uh chestnut uh chestnut and uh and mission row there.

Uh his name is Fidel Bautista.

And then also um another person who we lost is my best friend, my very best, my very first best friend uh when we were kids, Carmelita Garcia Cuero.

So thank you.

Thank you, Councilwoman Nicholas.

Thank you.

Thank you, Councilwoman Nicholas.

And now we'll we'll move to the other end of the dais.

I'm not sure she's left anything for you, Councilman Coleman.

But go ahead.

Sure.

Um so uh I'll be brief, uh, but today we had a budget meeting uh with the budget subcommittee, which the mayor sits on, and um I also sit on.

Um, and whenever we have these budget subcommittee meetings, I feel a little anxious walking in, but I, you know, walking out of that room earlier today, I felt a lot more calm uh because we have larger than expected revenue coming into the city uh from TOT taxes, from uh which is the hotel tax, as well as from property taxes.

Um and we also tightened the belt a little bit, uh, made little cuts here and there without reducing any services.

And we have a budget, we have a balanced budget for this year, is something that I am proud to report, and I believe we will be going in depth uh in our next council meeting on May 27th.

Uh there's still uncertainty due to the vehicle license fee uh revenue that we are losing, and that's because of Sacramento taking away money from us and and refusing to pay us back.

Uh, and I believe we have a report on that later today as well.

Um, but our city has strong financial footing for the time being, and uh, proud that we're entering um the next fiscal year in a very strong way.

And that's all, thank you.

And that's great.

Now we'll move to uh councilman Flores.

Great.

Thank you, Mr.

Mayor.

And I have several items also to share tonight.

So I appreciate the indulgence of my colleagues.

Uh last month at the last meeting, I was not here, as I was at the League of California's uh uh cities, city leader summit in Sacramento, um, which is uh a convening of over 400 elected officials uh from throughout the state.

It is essentially uh lobbying week, advocacy week up in in Sacramento.

Um I myself participated in over 12 legislative meetings coordinated uh jointly through the Cal Cities Peninsula Division and the Cal City's Latino caucus, uh meeting directly with legislators from our uh neck of the woods as well as uh from other regions, including uh Speaker Robert Rivas.

Um this conference again is put on by the League of California Cities, and it's uh really to focus as a coalition on what things cities are needing, what the local control panorama looks like, and what we can bring back in terms of funding and advocacy uh for our local jurisdictions.

Some of the key bills that particularly pertain to South San Francisco that I was advocating, pushing hard on, um, is uh, for example, um Assembly Bill 1588, which is being authored by Assembly Member Catherine Stephanie, which is a side-show accountability and community safety act, which would strengthen penalties and allow vehicle forfeiture and give law enforcement the tools to crack down on street takeovers.

Um, this I think about two years ago was happening.

The chief probably remembers this um right off of 101 and into Oyster Point, and I was very concerned because people would come from Oakland and the East Bay in San Francisco and take uh South San Francisco exit.

So I'm very uh fortunate that our assembly member is um authoring that, moving that forward, and that was another bill that we uh insured her that South San Francisco is fully supporting.

Another one is AB 2296 by Assemblymember Papen, which will give cities more time and clarity on housing element updates.

Um another one, AB 1708, that would require the state to work directly with our cities on size and on funding for unhoused residents.

As we know, homelessness it is an issue, and uh this one actually has passed out of committee unanimously, and I took part in round tables to advocating that uh the state actually gives cities under 300,000 um residents the local money.

We cannot put on pilots that will address homelessness if we don't have the funds.

Many of many times the state gives the 14 largest cities, San Francisco, San Jose, or even the counties the funds and short changes small jurisdictions, and this is where you see a lot of the issues happening.

I also took part in round tables on federal immigration enforcement and uh approved as part of the board of directors a new young elected officials group within the League of California Cities.

That Saturday, as I got back from a week in Sacramento, I joined the mayor in a dinner welcoming youth from Ato Tinil Colo Alto, Mexico, our sister city, and gave them uh recognition and awards.

Um, and uh it was great to be uh in community and break bread with our sister city association members.

The following week I was back in Sacramento.

I made a second trip with a delegation of roughly 60 community members and elected officials from San Mateo County for the assembly budget subcommittee hearing on the vehicle license fee.

Uh if you are been hearing about it or not quite sure what this means, I invite you to please stay uh for later in uh today's meeting, and we will dive into uh what this looks like.

I was joined by supervisors Jackie Spear and Noelia Corso and gave public comment directly to the committee, advocating for South San Francisco.

The message that I gave them was simple.

South San Francisco stands to lose about 5.1 million dollars, and that means potentially a fire station closing, uh preschool access, community policing at risk, and the state made a promise in 2004, and we were asking and are asking for them to keep it.

Um I also want to uh recognize some of our community partners who also spoke up and made the case.

Um Alita uh uh from the YMCA, our social services core agency, uh Second Harvest, Life Moves again, all these community and nonprofit agencies.

Um, and also it was really great and uh rewarding and ensuring to also see our firefighters up there all the way in in San Mateo and public uh safety officials, local 1507.

Uh, provided also testimony to the subcommittee, um, and their presence in that room really mattered.

Um, and I am grateful for every one of them who represented each one of our colleagues.

Um, I also want to um, as I as I shared uh earlier, uh, we were very excited to be able to put on the uh behavioral health commission uh training uh for elected officials, and I hope that we continue to model this not only for uh uh city elected officials but school board members.

Um, as you know, many times I would say one of the hardest jobs I've ever had as an elected official has been a school board president, um, and during the height of the pandemic as well.

So mental health is important, it affects all of us, and I hope to continue on that fight.

Um, lastly, um uh on a celebratory more note, uh Councilmember Nicholas, Vice Mayor Nagales, and I attended uh South San Francisco Chamber of Commerce annual scholarship luncheon celebrating over 60 of our local youth.

Um I want to again recognize our fire union, our local businesses, our family groups, and community organizations that provided scholarships through all of our youth.

Uh that investment is really what makes South San Francisco uh special, and many of the families there.

We're extremely grateful.

And finally, um this last Thursday, we broke ground on the new park at Linden and Pine in Old Town in District 5.

Mayor Adiego, Vice Mayor Nagales, Congressman Kevin Mullen, and our uh parks and rec commissioners, the chamber, the rotary club, and most importantly, the residents and youth of District 5 were all present there to witness it.

Uh the park will feature a playground, fitness equipment area, open lawn, a flexible plaza, uh, cultural space, um, over 30 new trees, a community design public art component, and it is backed by 3.2 million in state funding, and 830,000 from the federal land and water conservation fund.

And I want to thank uh the office and our congressman Kevin Mullen for that partnership and showing up.

So construction is going to start soon, is underway, and we will be on track to open it up early next year.

This is something very meaningful, very important.

The residents of Old Town have waited a long time for a space of their own, and we are finally there.

So this is a win for all of us in South San Francisco, in particular for the neighbors there in District 5.

And I'm very uh much looking forward to the official ribbing cutting next year.

Thank you, Mr.

Mayor.

That's all I have to report.

It's a great roundup councilman.

And we can uh move along on our agenda.

Oh, I'm sorry.

No, no.

But again, I'm not sure there's anything left, Vice Mayor.

But go ahead.

I actually do have a couple things.

Okay.

So it's okay.

Just to piggyback on one of my colleagues were saying, um, I all attended the South San Francisco Scholars for Luncheon.

And this year we gave over $60,000 in scholarships.

Thank you to those organizations and individuals that gave money to our to our students, the future leaders of our community.

And I want to highlight Councilmember Nicholas because she gives out a scholarship for four years for all four years, is that correct?

And actually, it's it's it's kind of inspired me a little bit because I want to actually do a scholarship as well.

I don't know if I could do all four years, but I want to be able to donate, and maybe I can invite my colleagues to join me in doing perhaps a city scholarship for our students in terms of providing.

So I just wanted to throw that out there.

Um I love history, and we recently just had the American Revolution exhibit, and I love just a little reading.

I was there for like a good couple hours just looking at the exhibits, playing with the video demonstration.

I think I want to thank the mayor for bringing that here in terms of well, you were pushing in terms of the America 250 celebration.

So I wanted to thank you at least for that.

So if you love history, that was like for me, I'm a history nerd.

Um I had the very good fortune of doing a podcast with Chef Ava.

I think most of us have already done that, and I was able to tell my South City story, and I I told her I'm not a very good cook, so she immediately sent me some recipes, which I will attempt to make.

So thank you, Chef Ava.

Um last month, uh, because it's been a while since we all saw each other.

Uh Supervisor Jackie Spear held her annual When I Grow Up event at Genentech, and it's it's an event for young girls about and learning from women in different industries.

And one of them was an astronaut who is training um to potentially go to the moon.

And it was such a great event uh because I brought my daughter there, and so you can see all these young women being inspired.

Uh so I thought that was fantastic.

And again, congratulations uh to um council member uh Eddie Forrest and actually the whole community really for the Linden Park groundbreaking.

I I think it's it really is another crown jewel to our community and something that I think it's been wanting from that community for a very, very long time, and uh I can't wait to ride my bike around the park.

So uh and speaking of bikes, so last Saturday, uh on my birthday, uh about 30 cyclists came out to celebrate um National Bike Month.

And I really want to say thank you to our amazing staff for putting that together.

Um, because we do have uh a bike culture in this community, and it should be celebrated and welcome.

And we've done a lot in terms of providing and supporting bicycle infrastructure, and we'll continue to do that here in South San Francisco.

And I just really appreciate that.

So just thank you for making my birthday and a fellow and all my fellow cyclists uh enjoy that special day.

So that's all I had, Mr.

Mayor.

Thank you very much.

Very good.

Okay, so with that, now everybody's had a shot.

Right.

Okay, so go ahead, Rosa.

Thank you, Mayor.

We will now move on to public comments.

We have a few speakers in the audience.

I do want to recognize that Annie has submitted a public comment that is available online, and we will start with Cynthia Markopolis.

In 2024, we requested through the Public Records Act the 75 credit card holders.

And after receiving 14 extensions, we received a few since December 2025.

We have been receiving duplicative credit card receipts and statements at least two or three times.

And this is not compliance to keep sending the same statements and receipts of the same credit card holders.

Of concern is the 18 extensions for the public records request, quote.

Please provide a list of all contracts that have been entered into between the city of South San Francisco and private and/or independent contractors from 2022 to the present, the past three years to the present, including the total payments made to each contractor.

Chief Samson applied for the 2010 2.25 million dollar FEMA grant, and our public record requests still are unanswered for an accounting of the $2.25 million FEMA grant.

In 1979, the voters passed Measure P that assessed real property five cents per 100 to acquire and purchase the then value giant, later renamed the MSB.

And we first contacted the San Mateo County assessor and the elections department, who both told us the city of South San Francisco has the records to contact them.

We put in a public records request in March 2026, and the clerk replied to contact the San Mateo County Assessor and Elections Department that our city has no responsive records.

Where's the money?

How much was collected from the taxpayers who approved this ballot measure to purchase the MSB over the 20-year period?

The voters elected the city council members and the city clerk.

However, Redwood Public Law, Mr.

Woodruff's firm is setting policy for our city.

We hear, well, other cities are doing, say action minutes or limiting public comment, have the same or similar council handbooks.

It's no wonder his firm advises South San Francisco, El Cerrito, Dublin, Catati, Gallida, Pinol, Walnut Creek, Mantica, Tracy, San Leandro, Los Altos Hills, Berkeley, Cloverdale, Sebastopol, Newark, Modesto, Windsor, Larksburg, as well as being special counsel to public agencies, nonprofits, and private sector clients, including water, sanitation, and transportation districts of other cities and counties.

Redwood Public Law is setting cookie cutter policy throughout our cities and county that is not in the best interest of the residents.

Thank you.

Moving on to Leslie Fong.

Hi, Mayor, Vice Mayor, City Council, and staff.

I just want to showcase South City.

You know I love this place.

Um, you probably want to, yeah.

Oh, sorry, good.

Okay.

Anyway, we have food drive, blood dry, toy drive every year.

The library had 3D printer.

That's great, being used in make a space.

Multiple I should I love and rotary club.

Elves Club that does function.

Self-substitution uh convention center, does a yearly two view at night, which is a hit every year.

We also I found out recently that every Monday there's a mobile clinic for those people who can afford health care.

And I thought it was great.

I was surprised by that.

Then you have the women's rummage sale, which really is a hit.

To showcase a local place that's not in South City is San Bruno, local kitchen.

You gotta go check it out.

It's located by Bayhill Shopping Center.

I tried the um Catus Taco.

It was delicious, really savory.

Thick chips with guatamole.

Are you guys hungry now?

And we got Persian um cucumber lemonade, which goes really well with that, and they're showcasing a mini blueberry lemon cheesecake.

Oh my god, I'm a diabetic, but I ate the whole thing, okay?

So check it out.

Thank you so much.

Bye.

Thank you, Leslie.

Trinity Cable.

Welcome.

Hello.

Good evening.

Um my name is Trinity Quepo.

I am a junior attending South San Francisco High School, and I am here to actually uh uh highlight a topic brought up uh in the last city council meeting regarding Peninsula Clean Energy's push for better reach codes.

Uh, as a student who wants a sustainable future, and as a person who will eventually inherit the buildings being constructed today, I favor and support these codes as I create a safer environment for our community.

I strive for our neighborhoods to be healthy and long-lasting, and I long for when we don't need to be dependent on fossil fuels and uh when we don't only live for ourselves but our our environment.

And although these goals may be a bit far-fetched now, I believe the electrification of new buildings and homes and establishments from PCE's reach codes is an essential step in building that future.

According to the Peninsula Clean Energy, uh California's residential and commercial buildings account for roughly 14% of the state's total greenhouse gas emissions.

This means that implement implementing a cleaner, more efficient standards in new construction can play a major role in reducing gas emissions and slowing the effects of climate change in our local environment.

This is incredibly significant since the buildings we construct today will last for decades, making our decision to either promote pollution or prevent it extremely profound.

I also want to emphasize the health benefits that the reach codes represent.

Every person in our community deserves to have a home where their health is not compromised by the infrastructure around them.

The reach codes uh the reach code addresses this as it removes the numerous gas appliances, resulting in better air quality and lowered risks of gas-related accidents or disasters.

In other words, adapting these uh standards, it will make our community safer and more secure.

Therefore, I respectfully urge each and every one of you to support these codes and invest in a healthier, more eco-friendly future.

This decision will shape the quality, cost, and sustainability of infrastructure in our cities for years to come.

Thank you so much for your time.

Thank you, Trinity.

Corey David.

I can say I wasn't thrilled or surprised by the recent revisit to the betrayal that keeps on taking the PUC project.

It seems the time has not been kind to either the project or the developers.

I warned my colleagues years ago that the developer would be back at the table, and sure enough, the council served a feast.

You refresh my memory about the November 13, 2019 meeting where in the literal midnight hour, I witnessed the renegotiation of the sales price of the PUC parcel from eleven million dollars to a discounted five and a half million dollars to help fund the Oak Street extension that would turn residential street royal drive into a rush hour nightmare.

This public display was unbelievably unusual, as most of these negotiations are hidden closed sessions, begs the question where is that money?

Three weeks ago, you served up a second course in the guise of a time extension and a redirection and waiver of well over 10 million dollars in impact fees that would have benefited South San Francisco residents as a whole, all in pursuit of your socialist communist housing dreams.

What's next on the menu?

Approval of another 10 or 20 stories, a waiver of parking requirements, canceling the daycare center, scrapping the landscaping.

If that wasn't enough, the planning commission has designed some multi-year 282 million dollar capital improvement plan.

Here I thought South San Francisco was carrying massive debt in the hundreds of millions of dollars and running an annual deficit, but it appears that there is ample money for every pipe dream.

Well, every dream, but the reopening of the MSB.

South San Francisco resident taxpayers have bankrolled every capital project you have approved, often without their knowledge.

You use our tax dollars to satisfy mercenary outside special interests while ignoring existing resident needs.

You have used city credit cards for Disneyland hotel stays, eight hundred dollar crab dinners, thousands of dollars in snacks, personal gourmet coffees, and even a bottle of bourbon.

And that's the short list.

As you've been so generous spending South San Francisco taxpayer money, maybe you can hustle up a couple of million for a down payment on some integrity.

The residents know you will ignore us and continue to serve at your own pleasure.

But know this when the inevitable hits a fan, don't come to us to bail you out.

Fianola.

I see the clock is running already.

Don't mistake an expensive education for an actual education.

From Harvard, I would like to challenge the young lady who just spoke a few moments ago to do her research and not just accept comments from Peninsula Clean Energy.

Who has a great deal to gain from the propaganda that Mr.

Coleman is pushing?

Civilization will collapse without power, Mr.

Coleman.

I like to, I mean, I'm just a regular citizen.

I'll let you know that.

Renewables will generate on a good day.

25 to 28 percent of the power needed to sustain us as we are now.

That is how much power we get from renewables to sustain us as we are now.

Where's the thinking on your behalf, Mr.

Coleman, pushing everybody in this direction?

Where's the data?

Where's the information?

Where's the evidence?

This cry about fossil fuels has been going on for a very long time.

Go back and do your research in history.

And they said the same about coal as they now say about oil.

You want proof of that?

I'll bring it.

More on that to come.

More on that to come.

Now, why would Mr.

Woodruff want half million dollars more money?

There's a lot to cover up in South San Francisco.

How about a hundred percent reduction in public documents provided to the community?

100% reduction of our public documents.

No public, you will not get to know one word of what is going on behind the scenes because Mr.

Woodruff will cover it all up.

Don't you worry.

Thank you.

Do we have any additional speakers in the room?

That concludes public comment mayor.

Okay.

We can move along to the consent calendar.

Which we no longer read.

Correct.

So we turn to uh our colleagues.

If anyone would like to remove an item for comment or discussion, we could entertain that.

Mr.

Mayor, since this is kind of new rules in terms of what we're doing uh for the consent calendar, I did check with uh the city manager, and if I'm not gonna ask questions, I don't technically have to pull anything, but I can make a comment.

Okay, and so one of the items is um awarding the contract construction contract to CLW builders uh for the Westboro Preschool project.

And I want to highlight this because uh it's been eight years uh to get this point.

Um and you think building affordable housing takes a long time try building affordable child care.

Um with approving this construction contract, we're one step closer, colleagues, to building a new child care center that will house 100 children.

We've had a wait list because our programs are unbelievably popular and affordable.

I just really want to say thank you to my colleagues for your support.

Um, this is really a win for all of us, uh, and I want to thank staff for their amazing work, especially since I constantly ask what's happening with this project.

Um, because I remember when I started, um, how families were waiting to get onto the wait list and they waited and waited, and by the time their children's name came up, they're already too old.

And I think the only thing that I'm sad about is that some of the kids who've aged out won't have the opportunity to go to this program.

But I am excited about the future, and that we are recognized as a leader in terms of providing affordable child care in the community.

Because I've heard that numerous times, and actually I was on a meeting, uh Sam Ceda for most of us who know that organization highlighted our work in terms of child care.

Um, so uh I just want to say thank you again, and I sounds like we might be having a groundbreaking pretty soon.

And so, colleagues, thank you for supporting this kind of my third child, you might say, in terms of the project.

So thank you.

Well, you should be you should be very proud, and and it's why it's important that um uh we have uh a dad with younger children on this body.

Um anyone else have an item to uh yes, uh thank you, Mr.

Mayor.

I just wanted to make a comment on item seven and and some questions on item 11 so staff can get ready.

I just want to recognize um item number seven.

This is uh a really fantastic initiative uh partnership.

Um I want to congratulate and thank Peninsula Clean Energy, first and foremost.

Uh, they awarded a contract of 1.2 million dollars uh to South San Francisco to improve the lighting in in downtown in old town.

Um, the great thing about this, it wasn't just a 1.2, but we came in under uh the budgeted amount, and the extra money that was also approved is now uh being able to be utilized to fixed approximately 179 light fixtures uh and turned them into LED throughout, I would say about eleven different parks and areas in South San Francisco.

Everything from Brettonwood to Bury Bury to Orange to Seabaker to Terra Bay, Westboro, Willow, Samora Park.

Um, this is really a win for our community.

It brings about uh improved quality of life for our families, for our youth, for our kids that are out.

Um again improving light fixtures and replacing light poles that otherwise we would not be able to do.

And if you've been to uh to old town downtown at night, it looks amazing.

Uh the light fixtures are strong, are powerful.

I've gotten really strong comments from it as a result of LED lighting there.

That's on item seven.

On item uh number 11.

I did have a couple of questions.

Um, great.

Uh Rich.

And just to give a little bit of context, um, you know, um uh I don't know how many of you have been following, um, but uh foster city, the city of Foster city here in San Mateo County was paralyzed for five days after a ransomware attack forced the city to take most of its computer systems offline.

The city actually declared a state of emergency and government services were largely suspended, including police 911 services were kept working, but the rest of the city's digital um operations were essentially shut down uh because of a security breach, um, and it was essentially a cyber attack.

Um this past week um or actually this month, Canvas, which is a learning management system um used by 41% of higher education institutions, including our own community college district here in San Mateo, was hit twice by criminal hacking groups.

Uh they breached user data, including names, email addresses, student ID numbers, private messages, and replaced the Canvas login uh page with a ransomware uh demand.

Um now it brings me back to item 11 uh uh protivity is uh entering a contract for uh 285k for database extraction and transformation services, essentially pulling data out of our existing city systems and moving or restructuring it almost certainly as part of the workday ERP implementation that we are undergoing.

Um what this potentially means to me is that city data, employee records, financial data, HR information could potentially be in motion, um being touched by a third-party contractor.

And that is a moment of um elevated vulnerability.

Um, and I wanted to raise this um as it relates to these two bridges.

Um, and in that context, um, assistant uh city manager, uh, can you explain to us uh what data is essentially being extracted uh and transformed under this contract and what security protocols uh protivity is required to follow while they are having access to our systems?

Councilmember Flores, thank you for the question.

I can confidently answer the first one, and I will need to return to council with more information about uh what security measures are in place.

Uh, you're right, there is sensitive data there, including um social security numbers, uh personal identifiable information for employees.

Uh the first is there's actually two systems that are being um they're going to be converted into one.

We have our financial system, which is Tyler Eden, and we have our human capital management system, which is PDS.

Uh we're taking both of those data sets, and we're going to have one source of the truth, which is workday.

Um, from the financial side, we have vendor information, which sometimes if you're paying an independent contractor, their social security number is in the system.

So you are right to call that out.

Um, second, from the personnel side, the human capital management system, we have employee data there, so that is uh social security numbers as well.

Uh I will need to return to council or probably our IT director will return to council with how that data is being protected and um ensure the uh our employees and our vendors their information is being uh ensure it's protected.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Yes, and that's it's extremely important, so I'd appreciate that follow-up information.

Second question, so once uh Protivity completes this extraction and transformation uh transformation, sorry, will the city will we need to continue contracting with them on top of workday?

Um, essentially, you know, adding in another vendor for ongoing database maintenance updates and support.

No, this is uh one time for the implementation of workday.

Once the data migration has occurred, then the services will no longer be needed.

Okay.

And then lastly, um, do we I don't know if who would know this, maybe you or Tony.

Does the city have cyber liability insurance?

Um, does it cover breaches that occurred through third-party vendors who have been granted access to our systems?

We do.

We have cybersecurity um coverage through Beasley.

Um we also have uh counsel might recall on the last council meeting on consent.

You approved a contract for another three-year period with Beasley Security for it 24-7 end-to-end telemetry monitoring.

They monitor all the system logs to sure to see if there's been any suspicious activity that's occurring on our network.

Okay, great.

Thank you.

Just want to go on record on this to make sure that we're monitoring and so that staff and everyone knows that we're taking a close watch on this.

Thank you.

Appreciate it.

Thank you, Mr.

Mayor.

Okay, thank you, Mr.

Flores.

And uh my items uh any item from Councilman Coleman or no, okay.

So my items are items 14 and 17, and um, you know, 17 is um uh the adoption of the ordinance which amends um uh the changes to the um project at 1051 mission road, and I had voted against that uh and I need to be consistent, so um I'm gonna call that out from the consent calendar so it stands alone and I can register my no vote.

Um item 14 is a little bit more interesting.

It's uh a lease agreement.

Um we finally have uh an individual who wants to rent some of the space that we acquired on Grand Avenue, two storefronts, one for uh a um barbershop and one for uh a nail salon.

Uh his name is Aurelio Roman, it's somebody that I've known for at least a dozen years.

He's lived in South San Francisco uh longer than that, and um I received a call from the city attorney recently uh indicating that someone from the city staff had a concern about the advisability of my voting on this particular issue, and so um you know I conferred with the city attorney, and maybe you can help fill in the blanks on why it's permissible for me to vote on this item, which I will be doing.

So as I understand it, um Mr.

Roman is a tenant in a building um owned by a trust um that um is uh where uh the mayor's father is the trustee, and uh the mayor and his brother are contingent beneficiaries, which is a technical term, uh, but the interest that they have in that trust um is not one that is considered to be a financial interest um under the FPPC's regulations, and so uh the mayor does not have a financial interest from the rent payments from Mr.

Roman to to the property um owned by the trust.

So he is allowed to uh vote on this item.

Thank you, Scotty.

So uh interesting twist because you're kind of used to that coming from the public, but from our own staff is is quite uh not amusing.

Um so we need a motion on items three through sixteen.

I'll make that motion.

Oh, second.

Okay, a motion and a second on the floor and roll call.

Mayor Adiego?

Yes, Councilmember Flores?

Yes, Vice Mayor Nogales?

Yes, Councilmember Coleman?

Yes, Councilmember Nicholas.

Aye and then the next item uh who would like to make the motion on 17 so that I can vote against it.

So moved.

Good.

Do we have a pardon me?

There's an item 18.

Oh, I'm sorry.

We're gonna do two motions.

You know, I didn't turn the page.

I'm sorry.

So we have a motion for 17, and a second from Floor Nicholas.

Yes.

I thought so.

So um let's do a roll call.

Vice Mayor Nogales.

Yes, Councilmember Coleman.

Yes, Mayor Adiego.

No.

Councilmember Nicholas, aye, and council member Flores.

Yes.

Okay, and uh we almost forgot number 18.

Um, so uh thank you, Floor, for catching that.

So would you like to make the motion?

I do.

So we all second and a second.

Um sorry, have a second.

Thank you.

Roll call on eighteen.

Mayor Adiego?

Yes, Councilmember Coleman?

Yes, Councilmember Flores?

Yes, Vice Mayor Nogales?

Yes, and Councilmember Nicholas.

I thank you.

We now move on to public hearing item number 19 is a report regarding a resolution approving proposed changes to the master fee schedule for the fiscal year 2026-27.

So the finance director is working overtime today.

We just came out of a budget um the committee meeting at City Hall for a couple hours there, and I'll go ahead and open the public hearing and we'll hear from staff.

Thank you, Mary.

Mayor Adiego, Vice Mayor Nogales, Councilmember Nicholas, Flores, and Coleman.

And my first time saying that in public, so thank you for having me here today, to city staff and to the public who are joining us for this presentation.

Um, I'm going to hope this does what I hope it does.

I'm Chrissy Donnelly, I'm the finance director, and we are going to have a discussion over the master fee schedule for fiscal year 26-27.

Just a quick review.

City services for general and general public.

Excuse me, I did open the public hearing, right?

Because I sometimes forget.

So he was covering me, so thank you.

Go ahead, Miss Donley.

Thank you.

Um, tax revenue support city services, such as public safety, streets, and other infrastructures.

This is what we would um consider general public use or community use.

There are other services that are specific to user groups, things that we are the city is permitted to recover costs associated with providing those services when they are determined to be a personal choice or user fees.

So most fees are limited to the city's reasonable cost.

We are only able to recover what it costs us.

We don't make a profit on it all any of these.

We're just making sure that the cost to provide these services is covered.

Generally, best practice is that we do a user fee every three to five years.

The last user fee was done in 2023.

So we are looking at doing a new user fee soon, but we would like to get workday up and running probably first.

Um in the interim years, which this would be one, we typically will use the consumer price index, also known as CPI, to determine how to increase those fees just on a flat even way that is fair to the to the users.

And so those fees are also reflected in the new schedule, and then the parks and rec department is not limited um to cost or is not bound by cost recovery.

They are look at market rate because the services that they are providing are um not imposed upon the residents, and so it's a choice that people have to participate in these recreation programs, and so because of that, we are able to set a rate based upon the market.

Now, the majority of the parks and rec fees also looked at a 2.5% CPI.

There were a couple that were adjusted, um, either 50 cents down for rounding or 50 cents up for rounding.

And so the um the the um attachment, that's the word, has a list of all of the proposed fees, and um I'm not going to go over each and every one of them, but you are welcome to ask me a questions on any of them.

Um, the parks and rec department did present the proposed master fee schedule to the commission, the parks and rec commission in April, and um the commission approved the suggested two and a half percent fee increases with five yeses, one no, and one absence.

And the library department also presented the proposed master fee schedule to the library board of trustees also in April, and the board approved the charge the changes to the master fee schedule.

So, right now we are just asking that you would hold this public hearing, receive input regarding the adoption of these fees, and at the conclusion of the public hearing, consider adopting resolution 26-1752 to approve the updates.

And do you have any questions?

Mr.

Mayor.

Well let's see.

Mr.

Mayor, um, I appreciate the presentation.

Thank you.

And I I always want to see in terms of rates, park and rec.

And we've as a council, we've had discussions about this in terms of increasing fees.

And so I'm gonna look at Greg in terms of when we increase our fees.

We have in the past have helped our residents participate in classes and programs if they're not able to pay.

Is that still gonna continue with what we are doing now?

Yes, correct.

Um we do have a scholarship fund.

Um maybe two years ago, we sort of formalized that scholarship fund.

It sort of used to live in our donation account with all our general donations from the city or from uh participants or donations from organizations.

We have since set that aside into it's a dedicated fund that can only be used for that purpose, and we have a pretty healthy fund balance at the moment.

And remind me how we advertise that to let folks know because I don't want them to be discouraged when they see the re the fees increase.

Well, now I can't afford that.

Yeah, um, I believe that was uh some feedback we received from both the commission, parks and rec commission and the council um in prior years.

Um we have expanded our um advertisement of that service.

It's included an activity guide in several locations.

We include it in our newsletter.

Um we do discuss it with folks over the counter um to ensure that it that isn't a barrier.

Um, I'm sorry, did you put in the in the program guide too?

Okay, yeah, I saw that in the activity guide.

So I I can assure you that's there.

Perfect.

And so the other thing I I wanted to bring up is so we have a great space, uh LPR.

I have heard in the past that for some residents it's a little expensive to rent in terms of the space.

And I I'm just the the cost is the cost, I understand it.

Is I guess is our cost comparable with other spaces, or are we a lot higher compared to other rec spaces?

Because what I don't want, I've heard this many a times, like I can't afford the rate that you are your charging.

And I've heard it for nonprofits as well.

And I know we do like a nonprofit rate, but that's still at the same time or nonprofit that they can't afford, so they go to another space for their events.

Um, yes, a great question.

Um our fees are comparable, I would say.

Um rentals are a little bit different than some of our other program areas in which we don't subsidize it much at all.

We uh get about a hundred percent cost recovery on that.

Um I will say, as I mentioned, they are pretty comparable to other cities.

Um, also a little different than other cities.

We provide full service for those rentals, so we do all the setup that tear down the custodial cleanup afterwards beforeas many cities give you a blank room and say, Here's the storeroom, roll out your tables and chairs.

Um we do that for a couple reasons.

One is liability, another is um uh the facility itself damage that may incur if someone else is improperly uses equipment.

Um but um that that is a nuance that's a little different that I will I will share.

Yeah, okay.

Thank you very much.

The mayor, um question for you, um uh Greg as well.

So the last time um the fees were uh increased was three years ago, is that correct?

Or when?

Uh I believe we did for parks and rec?

Last year.

We we look at these each year, and so last year they were raised, they were adjusted as well for CPI, believe, and they were looked at line by line by the parks and rec department.

Um, the study, the very in-depth where you with we establish what is the cost of this service, um, and really look at um you know the labor costs and and the overhead costs and all of the pieces that go into those that equation.

That study was done three years ago in 2023.

And we foresee doing that study again when in within the next year to two.

Um I I don't I don't have an exact date.

We do want to, it takes a lot of staff time to make sure that we get the right inputs because the fee the the study is only as good as the data that we give them, and so we want to make sure that we have the time and capacity to give them good data while we are in the middle of an ERP implementation, may not be the best time for that.

And so my my hope is to do an evaluation within the next few months to see when on the calendar would be good to do that study, um, but I am looking at in the next one to two years.

So we do CPI adjustment every year, which is about how what percentage?

Well, this year it was 2.5%.

2.5, and last year, what did we do?

I I believe it was three, but I I'm not I don't have the exact number I can get that for you.

Okay, um, but it usually CPI is anywhere depending upon you know inflationary rates.

You you may have some years that are low in the ones or in the twos, and then there's some years that I've seen that have been as high as in fours and fives.

And in that 23 study, what was the increase percent increase that we so it wasn't a percentage increase for the study, it was done by an evaluation of the inputs of the data for each activity.

So it wasn't a an escalator, it was kind of like uh when you do a zero-based budget, you look at all the inputs to see what the cost is, and the cost was based upon what actual costs are, and then council would evalu evaluate.

Um I wasn't here for the for that specific thing, so I don't know which ones are being subsidized or not, but basically, any one item can be subsidized by the general fund if we uh council opts to not go for full cost recovery.

And so when we look at this the CPI increases, we are making sure that again we are not exceeding what full cost recovery would be.

I just want to make sure that we are not doing CPI percent increase, and then on top of that here comes a study, and then we're gonna shoot up another four or six percent um on top of our our normal CPI, which that compounds to significant increase to our residents.

So, what we would do in a in the year that we do the study, which is this year potentially later or next year?

It would the study usually takes several months, many months.

I would I would say that the likelihood of coming back before the next budget cycle is low, um, just because of the number of inputs and the workday implementation looking to happen in October and then the holidays.

I think that probably what I would like to be able to see is and the earliest would be this time next year.

We could have a conversation of what the results of a study were.

That would be the earliest, and then instead of talking about CPI, we would talk about the new base.

What are the the rates that are cost recovery, and what does council want to subsidize, and what do we want to look at as full full cost recovery?

So, last question is it because we were transitioning to your our work day that we were not able to complete this before this item came?

You know, we usually in just industry standard is to do a big study every three to five years, because they are they do cost money and they do take time, so and and there's not a lot of data that changes year over year.

It's more of like every five years, typically you do a study to re-establish the baseline, and then in the in-between years you use CPI to make sure that you make adjustments for inflationary.

But then again, when the report comes up, then it's potentially another increase.

It could be an increase, it could be a decrease, it could be a shift.

Um that it's when council can really begin to ask the questions again and reevaluate how much of these various costs, whether they be recreation or any of the developer fees or any of the fees that are in here, um, how much is is do we need to do full cost recovery?

How much have the have have the prices shifted?

Anything that's driven by say gas or fuel maybe is going to be different, but other items may not have shifted at the same rate as as inflation.

And so we we look at the whole picture and then from there decide where we want to set the fees, and it's kind of establishing a new baseline.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Any other questions?

No.

I'll move the item.

Do we need to have public comment?

Oh, sorry.

Thank you.

Everybody's covering.

He's covering for me tonight.

Rosa?

No public comments for this item, Mayor.

We can close the there are none?

No.

So I'll go ahead and close the public hearing.

That's official.

And then we needed a motion.

You offered it?

I offer the motion.

Thank you.

I second.

In a second.

Council Councilmember Flores?

No.

Vice Mayor Nogales?

Yes.

Councilmember Coleman?

Yes.

Councilmember Nicholas?

Aye.

Mayor Adiego?

Yes.

Thank you.

We will now move on to administrative business item number 20 is a report regarding the property tax in lieu of vehicle license fees shortfall.

Good evening, Mr.

Mayor, Mr.

Vice Mayor, members of Council Richley, your assistant city manager.

The item before you is about property tax in lieu of vehicle license fees.

That is a mouthful.

It's lovingly known as VLF.

So the presentations are going to be a brief one.

We're going to focus on the history, and then we'll talk about what the impact is to the region and specifically to South San Francisco.

So we're gonna go back in the time machine to 1935.

That is the year that the state established a uniform vehicle license fee.

Fast forward to 1988.

That was voters passed Prop 98.

Prop 98 established a minimum funding threshold for K to 14 school districts.

Uh fast forward to 1992.

As you know, in government we love acronyms, uh ERAF is educational revenue augmentation fund.

Um that so I want to be very clear.

That is that ERAF is following the state script of a takeaway.

If you look at the uh distribution of the one percent property tax levy, ERAF took away property tax from county cities and special districts.

So fast forward, and this was to in order for the state to fulfill its obligation again to fund K-14 school districts.

Fast forward to 2004 with Prop 98 in place and ERAF in place.

Uh this was uh again another year in which the state was having trouble balancing the budget.

Um then the I'm um recalling it might have been Gray Davis, uh, came up with the property tax swap.

Uh it was a part of the budget deal of 2004.

Um Council Member Flores mentioned it earlier this evening.

Um the deal was effectively this the state reduced the vehicle license fee.

It completely eliminated the share for local government.

Uh in exchange for that, and I want to acknowledge the efforts of Cal Cities and of local government agencies for pushing back against the state.

That is why we have this deal in place.

Uh they um exchanged property tax for the loss of vehicle license fees.

This was not property tax that um materialized out of thin air.

This is property tax from what is known as non-basic aid school districts.

I'm going to go into that in the next slide, but um that is the the funding source for this backfill.

Now, the other important part that I want to mention is um, and I see this often in news media covering the VLF, the 2004 deal uh for those that are fortunate to own a vehicle and you pay your registration and it says specifically on there, this is the vehicle license fee portion.

That budget deal completely decoupled property tax from vehicle license fees.

So there is no association with you paying your vehicle registration fee with this backfill.

Okay.

San Mateo County specifically in 2020 and 2021, that was the first fiscal year in which we had a shortfall.

Again, I'm going to get into why that happened and exactly how it happened, specifically for San Mateo County.

So on the left, you have this line in the middle.

On the left, I mentioned non-basic aid school districts.

There is a line there that says LCFF, that is local control funding formula.

That began in I believe 2012.

That was a way for the state to allocate or the basis that the state allocates the Prop 98 funds.

The large basis is average daily attendance, but it includes includes other factors.

The non-basic aid school districts do not have enough property tax.

Those are the portions in blue.

And ERAF, the state uses ERAF to try to get them to meet the Prop 98 limit.

But because they require ERAF, that is why they are considered non-basic aid school districts.

They do not have enough property tax to meet the Prop 98 limit.

Contrast that on the right side of the line is a basic aid school district.

Again, the portion in blue being the property tax.

You can clearly see it is above the line.

They generate enough property tax to be above the Prop 98 threshold.

That is why they are a basic aid school district.

So imagine this for San Mateo County, there are 23 K-14 school districts.

At present, there are only four non-basic aid school districts.

That is why we've been in this predicament.

If you flash back a decade ago, there were 10 non-basic aid school districts.

What has been happening over the last decade is more and more non-basic aid school districts have been shifting to basic aid status.

Once that happens, that property tax is no longer available to fund the VLF backfill that local government is owed.

So I mentioned 2020-21 was the first year that there was a VLF shortfall for San Mateo County.

2023-24 was the first year that we did not get paid the full amount.

As council is aware and has been very public in the paper, San Mateo County did file a lawsuit against the state of California for the one-third that we were not paid, which is about 38 million dollars.

So I've been very state focused and we've focused in on zoomed in on San Mateo County.

Now I want to zoom in a little bit more specifically to South San Francisco.

So I mentioned just a minute ago that right now we have four remaining non-basic aid school districts.

As you can imagine, what we expect to happen over the next six or seven years is that the remaining non-basic aid school districts, most of them are going to flip to basic aid status.

That is going to increase the VLF shortfall exponentially.

So I'll orient you with this chart, it is a lot of data.

So I've got a big red line there somewhat in the middle, the far left, those are fiscal years that have already elapsed.

The legend at the bottom corresponds to the bar uh chart at the top.

Uh highlighted South San Francisco's portion of the VLF shortfall in red, so it's easier to see.

The numbers at the top of each uh column, that is the countywide VLF shortfall.

Now, starting with fiscal year 2122, you can see somewhat of an exponential growth.

2122 countywide shortfall was over 32 million dollars.

Uh the fiscal year that we completed last year, it was up to 119 million.

Uh, I believe our finance director made mention of that earlier today during the budget subcommittee hearing.

Our share of the VLF shortfall is a little bit over four percent.

So for last fiscal year, over five billion dollars was owed and is still owed uh as our share of the VLF shortfall.

I meant, I think go back just one slide.

So two fiscal years ago, we're still owed $38 million.

And in addition to that, for 2425, we're owed 119 million dollars countywide.

So, rough math, that's 157 million dollars countywide that we are owed.

South San Francisco's share of that is six point eight million dollars.

Okay, on the right side of the graph, those are projections.

Now, you might notice that this is not linear.

Uh there's a reason for that.

Uh as I mentioned, the remaining non-basic aid school districts, yes, we do expect them to flip to basic aid status.

However, once a school district changes from non-basic aid to basic aid status, they are no longer eligible to receive supplemental property tax.

Once you, if you are very close to the Prop 98 threshold, and you no longer receive supplemental property tax.

One scenario that has played out is the next fiscal year, you might flip back to non-basic aid status.

That is why you have somewhat of a yo-yo effect in the future years.

But uh by 2032, we believe that by that time there will be only one non-basic aid school district left of the 23 in San Mateo County.

That is why countywide, we're looking at over a 332 million dollar countywide shortfall.

Our share of that would be 14 million dollars.

That is not cumulative, that is one fiscal year.

Okay, so zooming into South San Francisco specific.

Uh, what I've asked the each department to do to meet with me is to outline what would it take for us to adjust our operations in order to account for a loss of this magnitude.

That's 14 million dollars.

I'm not going to read all of these, I just want to highlight some of them.

Councilmember Flores, you've mentioned a couple of them in your opening comments.

Uh, one, we would have to close a fire station.

We have five fire stations in South San Francisco who would have to close one of them.

Our police department, we would have to uh end our community outreach team, our school liaison officer program.

We just finished talking about um park and rec fees and the preschool fees.

Um council member Nicholas, you just mentioned how long the wait list is.

Uh we would have to increase preschool fees substantially.

Sorry, I meant Vice Mayor Nagales.

Uh substantially, 75% to be exact.

Concert in the park, this is our largest public event in the city.

We would have to end that.

Uh library hours, we could only be open five days a week.

Uh illegal dumping would take longer for staff to respond to.

We would have very limited staff to respond to traffic light maintenance.

Um, council member Flores, uh, we've talked about on the holiday decorations.

That is such a nice part uh that we have here in the city, we would have to end that.

Uh we are the birthplace of biotech.

We could we could no longer afford to attend the bioconference to represent the city.

We have uh several vacant positions that we would have to defer long-term recruitment of those positions.

Um these are just some of the highlights of what we would have to do in response to the loss of this funding.

Before I close, I do want to make uh a few more um comments, and the first is and you've you've you may have seen this, an update from the county.

Uh, first, and I apologize, I don't really have a whole lot of good news tonight on this topic, but the first is uh we should not be surprised.

The governor's May revised budget will not include any funding for San Mateo County's VLF shortfall.

Let me be clear about that.

Again, that's 157 million dollars that we are owed, not just for two fiscal years ago, but now three fiscal years ago, one third of that and the entirety of fiscal year 24-25.

Uh the second is okay, not on the May revise.

If they're through the uh efforts of our state delegates, I want to call them out, uh same member Diana Papen, uh Senator Scott Weiner, uh Senator Becker, all of our state delegates, they're doing what they can to leverage their political capital to try to get us money that we are we need to provide services.

Uh if that does materialize, that will be through a budget trailer bill, but it will not be on the May revise.

Um the last thing, and it pains me to say this.

We've been hoping that there would be a legislative fix.

That is what we need.

I want to be uh re-articulate something that the city manager has said before.

We are we would be thankful to get the one time money that we're owed, but what we really need is a permanent legislative fix.

We've received word through the uh county executive that the department of finance uh will not be presenting any legislative fix, uh at least for the foreseeable future.

Um the last thing I'll say, uh, since I'm in the spirit of not giving good news, the money that I said is not going to be in the May revise.

That's 157 million dollars.

That does not include the money that we are owed for the current fiscal year.

The current fiscal year countywide shortfall is 125 million dollars.

Um so that just that's the county is going to, as consistent with their past practice, will file a claim with the state in August of this year.

So on that good note, I'm happy to address any questions from council.

Through the mayor.

Um, and on top of that, I also sit on the community action uh board, which oversees our nine um core agencies here in San Mateo County, and we were just discussing that yesterday morning.

Um, that indirectly but directly, uh, Measure K, which is uh County Board of Supervisors, funds about 3.2 million of our core services.

This is rental assistance, this is home, this is everything that you can think of that the YMCA offers to our residents here in San South San Francisco, San Bruno, and Brisbane.

They are heavily gonna get affected.

So another little box to your slide there is our core service agencies, as well as as well as life moves, right?

As well as second harvest, who also supplies food for um the YMCA core services agencies, all of them are gonna have significant cutbacks.

They have been funded until next year through the county measure K, as I've been told.

But after that, there will be ripple effects not only internal here in the city, but need, and and that's not even addressing the the health care component of uh health coverage uh for many individuals as well.

Um, to make uh a point on this as well.

Um there will be uh the trailer bill would then cover the backfill, not anything future correct.

Correct, all right.

Thank you.

Okay.

So I appreciate the update and that.

Um, one thing that does bother me though, is just the slide before this.

I know we're kind of looking at cutting potentially 10 things, but there's just no numbers attached to it.

And I know closing a fire station probably has a different impact on the budget than Holly decorations, or I don't know, maybe they maybe they are somewhat, but I just feel like to better visualize what each cut would like how much of a dent that would make to a projected deficit, I think that would be helpful in in the future.

Certainly.

Thank you for the feedback.

I should make one more note, which is uh all of these um potential reductions, they would be subject to the city's personal rules and regulations, the memorandum of understanding, and of course uh council input and council decision, uh final decision.

This is just to demonstrate what I've heard from the operating departments for now, and uh in order to reduce our operations by orders of magnitude.

So one more question, and I'm not sure.

Were you able to go up to Sacramento or was it just our council member?

Um, so I was planning to go, but I uh you know some things came up so I couldn't you know spend a day going to Sacramento, but I know we had a group of folks that did go up, and I just wanted to ask Councilmember Flores, what was the outcome of that?

Did you feel like other legislators were receptive?

Thank you.

I appreciate that.

I was just gonna mention that.

Uh so in the subcommittee, they have about eight different subcommittees, budget subcommittees that uh then contribute and inform the budget committee of both the assembly side and the Senate side.

Um both were extremely receptive, uh, what the outcome was.

It's technically called uh keep it as an open file, which means that they are opening it, they're not closing it, they're not saying oh, this is another get-in-line type of thing.

Um, in fact, many of the including the the chairperson and many of the assembly members and and also on the Senate side were extremely receptive.

One of the uh senators, uh Senator Cabaldon, uh represents Dixon Fairfield Napa, is very um uh passionate about this because Napa is the next county in line to have this occur.

Um, and also um, of course, Matt Haney, um, supervisor from San Francisco sits on there on the assembly side, was uh absolutely on on agreement that uh Samateau needs to be made whole again.

What really stood out, and um one of uh the chairwoman on the assembly subcommittee pointed out is this resonates uh in terms of the regular resident when when the they it really becomes an issue, it's not just about money and graphs and stuff, but response times for public safety for EMS, like significantly cutting down police station stations and police officers and um for cities that are already small, uh Pacifica was a perfect example that they have to let go already of three police officers should this not move forward.

So the way it was described and illustrated to them and the way they shared it back to the the comments, us was very receptive.

Um however, there are neighboring counties.

I won't name which legislators who say, hey, the budget is the budget.

You know, so um there's both trains of thought that maybe you should name them.

Um in an effort, uh talking with our city manager.

I think it would behoove us.

I mean, what can we do, right?

I mean, like you like you said, Rich, our delegation is on board, every single one, both covering San Francisco and San Mateo and San Mateo and Santa Clara, folks.

Um, I think uh the other thing is start really creating uh um a solid plan so when there the transition starts to happen, right?

Come this summer and into the fall, um, new leadership and also the new governor, that this is top of mind.

Um, and that's that's really where I think we have an open window to really enter the space and advocate at least for what our ecosystem here in South San Francisco represents.

Okay, I think um I think that's all from the council and Rich, thank you so much.

My pleasure.

Thank you.

Moving on to item number 21 is a report regarding amendments to the 2026 City Council Priorities Action Plan.

Good evening again, Mr.

Mayor, Mr.

Vice Mayor, members of council richly, your assistant city manager.

Um this is a follow-up.

Uh let me walk you through the timeline for the city council's priorities action plan.

Uh first, the council held its uh strategic workshop in January of 2026.

Uh that was followed by uh receiving the facilitators' uh workshop facilitators report, after which staff uh developed activities and initiatives based on that report.

Uh, that was presented to council last meeting, uh, at which time council identified seven additional priorities, and uh but council uh through the request of the city manager did adopt the priorities action plan with the promise that we would return.

And that's what uh the purpose of this evening's presentation is for you to consider uh potential amendment to the priorities action plan based on the seven additional priorities.

Uh those are the additional priorities that were mentioned during the last council meeting.

Uh of these seven, there are um three that are mentioned, sorry, four that are mentioned in the staff report that staff does recommend for inclusion in the priorities action plan.

Uh the first is air quality, um, and that uh to be more specific that refers to a Callan virus green report that was mentioned in a San Mateo Daily Journal article.

Uh, based on staff's preliminary research, uh, that reflected social and environmental justice indicators, uh, in addition to air quality measures.

Uh there's additional due diligence that's required to focus on identifying uh and understanding air quality data and sources separate from social and demographic data.

Uh, but that is something that staff believes that we can do with existing resources and potentially with the assistance of environmental air quality consultant.

The second, and uh we just finished the agenda item on the VLF communications plan that is kind of a precursor to having that um presentation available for the public, uh including um materials on the city's website on our e-newsletter and social media, having a dedicated page on our website, um, communicating as much as we can so that members of the community understand what the impact is to this.

Obviously, it's a somewhat complex topic, but the impact to the community obviously is significant.

So that is something that we are committed to adding to uh the action plan.

Third is the uh community facilities district in the Eastern 101 area, and staff can re-engage with the largest property owners to kind of assess based on okay the current economy, and we do have somewhat of a higher vacancy rate in the Eastern 101 area, as you may have seen in a recent um article in the San Mateo Daily Journal.

Uh we want to ensure to uh assess whether there's still support for this.

As you know, we need two-thirds um voter approval.

When I say voter, I mean property owner approval.

Um so we want to make sure that we have that support before moving forward.

The fourth one, um, it's kind of a modified um priority, and that would be activating street spaces.

So we would modify um to focus on community spaces.

Uh, we do have a special event permit process that is largely led by our police department.

Um, it might be a little bit overwhelming for um smaller community groups or those that are less familiar with the process.

So, what staff can do is to develop a toolkit that will have options for these uh smaller groups to consider based on the size of the event, uh perhaps a budget that they have to help them more readily understand what it would take to have a special event or to activate a street space here here in South San Francisco for the remainder of the priorities again due to uh limited staff capacity to take on any additional priorities.

Um we recommend that we do not pursue those at this time.

However, if council uh wants to elevate one of those priorities, we would just need direction from council as to which of the existing priorities and the new priorities we would need to deprioritize.

And with that, I welcome any questions from council.

Okay, who wants to start?

Please.

Thank you.

I um had spoken with the city manager about this.

I think uh I was the one that provided, I don't know, the the number sequences is off, so I'll just say the community connections promotores program.

Maybe I was um not clear when I provided uh direction on this.

It wasn't to augment the promotores program, but it was to continue to sustain it at that level.

Um, I was just happy to hear that we continue to have it at part-time or less than part-time, but just having them there as a placeholder, so that should, you know, sunnier days come, we are able to increase it and and and utilize that.

But it wasn't my intention to activate it again and augment it under the current financial time.

So that one I would sort of retract in the sense that we continue with what we have right now, um, we don't need to uh spend a lot of um on that.

Um the other one that I did want to add a little more uh context on it is the air quality.

Um it's not just a matter of understanding, and thank you for the Cal Environ Screen report, but also I want to uh as part of that bucket um be able to engage our legislators, uh, both uh uh Senator Becker and Assemblymember Papen to see uh if there is appetite or if there's space in conversations to designate um that area of town as a as a special vulnerable community uh geographic area.

Um the other point is um as you are aware, I think we've chatted, Rich, um, the climate bond measure funding that could potentially um serve as a as a resource to be able to provide whatever um information we find out should we need additional air quality monitoring, testing, et cetera.

So if we could unpack, I think there's nine different funding buckets.

Um the state senator's office has also indicated that that is a huge significant um financial resource right now for cities.

So I wanted to add those two components as part of the air quality uh category so that we do dive in what potential money uh grants we have available to be able to fund whatever we do find out.

Uh, because it doesn't do us any good to just find out the data points we're doing bad and not be able to proactively put something together.

Um the other one, um, the community facilities district.

Um, I wanted also uh uh unpack it a little bit if it is that you know the the shift or the will of uh property owners has shifted.

What is our plan to be able to repair or connect uh from a uh uh capital projects uh lens, the roads and the potholes and all of it that has been waiting um to take place in terms of uh fixing and and being able to maintain it.

Uh so if we're not there, I want us to focus on some type of contingency plan, if you will.

In the interim, an interim plan, if that's not the case.

So I I'd like to put a little bit more meat on those bones on those two categories.

We hope we can get some of that tonight or I mean uh yes.

So I would like to propose to add those two um as part of those categories and then drop off the promotoras category on that.

That makes too.

I mean, on the CFD, I'm in complete agreement.

I think the timing is wrong, and I think that we know what economic indicators to to monitor to see when it's moving in the right direction, and currently it's not.

Yeah.

Um, so what do we do about the deteriorating road system that's becoming an embarrassment?

It is, it is exactly that.

Um, as we're opening up new uh uh, you know, employers over there.

There's a many cyclists that take their cycles and they're like, what's going on in South San Francisco?

It can't take care of your own roads.

So that is that is important, and and also to engage those property owners and say, hey, we don't want to just dissolve this group, right?

But we'll come back to you in a couple years and and test the waters again.

I agree.

Council member, to your point, uh let's say that we do re-engage with the property owners and we determine that at least at present the will is not there as a part of our long-term fiscal sustainability plan.

One of the components of that is to conduct an infrastructure assessment that will inform the council of the many inputs that we have, uh, the park and rec master plan, the facility condition assessment, and uh that also includes the infrastructure assessment.

You mentioned the roads, uh the network over there.

We can include that as a part of the assessment, and when we deliver each of these components to council, uh that can be just part of the plan.

Yeah.

I'm thinking back the last year, and I see Matt over there in the audience.

It comes back every year when we study the capital projects component of the budget, right?

And I think there are numerous projects that are on hold or were put on hold because of the CFD.

So I want to make sure that where do we where do those leave off?

Right.

So not to fall off the list, but that they're still part of the priority to some degree, Matt or Laura.

Yeah, I would like actually in both of these cases, we have staff experts who I think could help us make some recommendations about whether or not we really could come up with an alternative plan in as part of the priorities for the council this year, or if that's not something that we have capacity to do until we know the status of that.

And then I think we also have folks from ECD or other departments talking about whether or not it's uh good to be a designated city, as you were talking about.

We understand there's some pros and cons under the air quality item, as well as the funding based on the bond.

So if we could have other staff members please come up and enlighten council, that would be great.

Thank you.

Good evening, council.

Matt Rubel, your principal engineer.

Uh yes, continuing the conversation we've had as we've uh reviewed the CIP budget in the past.

Uh, because the CFD East of 101 is an unknown, staff is still moving forward kind of on two tracks.

One kind of the most glaring issue was the pavement.

So last year, City Council approved a million-dollar pothole project that focused just east of one-on-one and was able to address a fair amount of those issues.

But that truly is a definition of a band-aid repair.

Right.

We need over 30 million dollars worth of pavement repairs for East of 101, and that's a level of funding that it's hard to cobble together.

Um, so we are doing that.

That is part of this year's CIP as well as another million dollars to focus on East of 101 and our Lindenville area, kind of some of our parts of our roadways that are kind of in most need of just of media repairs.

The second part of that is the transformational nature of our roadways in order to accommodate the future growth of ESA 101 and to enable people to shift from cars to transit and bikes.

Um the CFD was never the uh full solution.

It was only contemplated in about a million dollar bonding capacity, and we know we need about 300 million dollars worth of infrastructure long term.

It was a way to accelerate and get a lot of the uh core improvements in right away.

Um, in the meantime, if the CFD were to not go through, or while it's being delayed, uh we are still conditioning development to do their part as they are built, understanding that it's delayed as well.

We are actively going after grants.

One of the items that came before council tonight was an ADP uh grant application where we're hoping to apply for about 30 million dollars in state funds to uh address a few of those corridors and make meaningful impacts.

Um, and this would be work we would be doing even if the CFD was in place, because the amount of need is greater than any one source, so it really has to be a layer-caked approach.

So we are working on the solutions, and um if the CFD is ever part of that, that would really help us just accelerate the end outcome.

Thank you.

Thank you.

NC Lander, economic and community development director.

I think the question was about air quality and incorporating two more components into that item.

One is sort of evaluating the legislative umscape to see if we should um support bills that might include us with a group of other cities that have a special designation because of air quality, which we will absolutely consider and look at as part of this.

The big question is really whether or not we are substantially worse than our neighbors in terms of air quality, and that is something that we really feel like we need to do a deep dive into not just one data source but multiple data sources to understand.

So we'll absolutely consider that, and then the second piece is really that grants component.

So we sort of are looking at this as like a phased approach.

So the first phase is are we different than our neighbors?

Are we exceptional or exceptionally not good as the case could be?

We don't know, right?

And then um come back with some recommendations for either further study.

We could do that grants analysis at that point, but I think we first need to really understand where are we as a city, as certain neighborhoods are certain neighborhoods worse than others, and then where do we compare to our peers?

Because if if we are in line with our peers, then it will be harder to seek that designation.

What makes us different for grants and more competitive for grants?

So absolutely that it can be part of this study.

It might just be a further phase once we um understand the full time.

Yeah, no, I'm completely aligned with that plan.

I mean, we we absolutely have to verify, taking the newspaper's word that we are the only one in San Mateo County needs to be fact checked too.

Thank you.

And in addition, that study was an old study, and so therefore we have to validate the baseline that we have right now.

So, Mr.

Mayor, um, we are looking for counsel by motion to adopt.

I do have some comments.

So I I appreciate what's all been said.

I think a core component that is missing, especially from the air quality uh plan, is the reach code.

It is the the existence of natural gas and appliances in people's homes.

And you can tell, right, when you put the purple air monitors, and I remember working with Rise South City and getting those placed, you know, all throughout South City, including one at my house, and uh purple air monitors are located inside households.

The air quality gets worse when you're cooking, and it gets better, and so you see that spike when their air quality monitors are inside households.

And then when you look at what California has experienced in the past few years, yes, we have to adapt to climate change, but we also have to mitigate it.

And by mitigating climate change, that means reducing our reliance on fossil fuels, and it's not gonna happen overnight, but it has to start somewhere and it has to start now.

And I look at, I mean, we had a young student come here and and asked us to consider this, and there are many young students uh all throughout South City who are looking to us to take action on climate change, and what we have in front of us is most of the work is already done.

Peninsula Clean Energy has created model reach codes for cities to adopt, and they have been adopted by many other cities in San Mateo County, and right now South City is behind.

South City is behind.

I'm looking at the staff report, and I'm not sure if maybe I'm wrong, but I'm not sure that you read the reach codes that Peninsula Clean Energy is providing.

Because it says here, you know, I think one of the big concerns is maybe it would discourage individuals from pulling permits, but the flex path for single family is a time of renovation reach code.

That means that it requires applicants that are already pulling a permit to abide by a flexible menu of energy efficiency measures, electrification measures, and other readiness requirements.

Same thing with electric readiness, these outlines requirements for applicants who are already undergoing renovation projects that already necessitate a permit, and so I'm ready to study reach codes.

I'm ready to use all the work that Peninsula Clean Energy has already done and implement it here in South City.

Well, that was um, I know that's your passion, and um, and I understand why you're pushing hard.

Um, does anybody want to give any feedback on that?

Um I I think at one point we were paused or I guess on hold because we were trying to determine um the PGE, um, what what's the term I'm looking for, the the center that we that was going to provide enough um resources to our neighbors east of 101 and what that looked like.

Um it's come to my knowledge and attention that they've worked out a deal now that they will provide a substation is the term that I was looking for that will potentially give aid to the employers in the in that area, or at least the genetic um uh space over there.

So I know that that was heavy, that was controversial in a way, and we were trying to figure out whether it was going to be able to sustain.

Now that that's pushed aside, I I think it would benefit us to um the council member sits on that commit um board, he knows very well what what they discuss on these agendas, and uh to be able to at least look to what we can pull uh to what Peninsula Clean Energy has already put out there.

Um I don't think it's it's uh far reached for us to uh at least be able to consider the resources that are already existing and see how we can apply them.

I think, excuse me.

I think one of the questions we were having the earlier discussion is the bandwidth in terms of how much staff can take on, and I think if we add this component with our kind of the air quality, what does that look like in terms of staff time and everything else?

I believe uh the reach codes that you speak of, council member, that would probably fall within our economic and community development department.

So I want to ask our director to um if we if she believes we would have capacity to take that on.

I think this is more less about air quality and more akin to the cannabis item that council had directed staff to work on this year in terms of it being interdepartmental, it requires changes to our local codes.

The air quality is more of a discrete study, it's narrow in focus.

Um staff has bandwidth to do it right now.

The uh the adopting model reach codes would be more of an in-depth process, multiple trips to council and other other bodies.

So if it's council's direction, I think it's something that we could reasonably at least come back and say, do we think the model reach codes are the right fit for us right now without major issues?

But I do think that one thing I would say as caution that we do try to take a close look at is are there economic impacts in South City that differ from other jurisdictions?

We have a very large lower income home ownership population that could be discouraged.

We are really concerned about discouraging folks from getting permits, even for a substantial remodel.

We know that that happens.

Our code enforcement um team in Public Works does get calls about unpermitted construction.

We don't want to encourage that further.

So that's what we would really be taking a look at about the model reach codes, or what are the implications for this downstream in terms of cost to homeowners when they aren't making these repairs.

I think we all have anecdotal knowledge of that, what it's cost ourselves to increase electrical capacity to our homes and things like that, but trying to look at that on a broader scale in South San Francisco.

So we appreciate that the model reach codes are really great legislation, but we still do need to do the sort of setting temperature taking and setting for South San Francisco in particular.

That's the implementation issue, because you know, electrification of housing is really expensive.

Just replacing the electrical panels.

I mean, I don't think that we can we can do that modern reach code right now.

What we have right now is that if we have a renovation that's more than 50%, they have to abide by the what we have, right?

Or new construction should be abiding with what we have as an ordinance, right?

Right.

The reach codes do apply to renovation and and large projects.

And just in the in terms of affordability, yes, that is a concern, but that is what Peninsula Clean Energy is trying to address.

There are zero interest loan programs, there are rebates.

Uh what Peninsula Clean Energy has unveiled very recently is, I mean, if you're electrifying your home, you probably don't know what's going on unless you're an electrician, right?

You probably are it's it's new to a lot of people.

But what Peninsula Clean Energy has done is they have created a one-stop shop uh where you can actually call Peninsula Clean Energy and they will walk you through the process.

Well, anecdotally, it costs 4,000 to 5 to 10,000 dollars to just make sure that the electrical panel, yeah.

Yeah, but but there are we could have a uh an exemption uh for for those who are low income.

I mean, I mean these are options that we can make as policymakers, and I and I understand the staff time concerned by would not be making this ask if we did not have the model reach codes here.

So can I can I suggest something, colleagues?

So I think we're kind of just there's a lot of questions in the air, right?

But in order for us to answer those questions, staff really need to dig into that, right?

And for me, it's it's always been about the cost and the and the because not everyone four to ten thousand dollars as average, you know, just because of depending on the size.

If I'm an elderly person who just happens to live, who have a fixed system who happens to live in a single family home, that's still a lot of money for someone to convert their their heater to this.

And so I I'm Council McColman, I'm happy to uh to support just to look into this issue so we can get some information, but see if this is something that's feasible economically, because that is the question I think all of us are really trying to figure out, and in order to do that, I think staff has I think legitimate concerns, I think all of us have legitimate concerns about what that would look like financially for those who are going to be participating in this.

So I'm happy for staff to kind of dig into that particular piece, and then it's still council's decision to decide if they want to move forward with the reach code.

And so it could come back and say, you know, financially, it's gonna be very difficult.

And maybe there's something like to you to your point of maybe we can do some exceptions.

But in order to do that, I think we have to have staff dig into that.

And I think if only I think we focus on our key priorities first, uh, like I think the air quality is is was one thing of the other things we're talking about.

And then one of what once those priorities are done, I think we can look at the the reach code conversation.

Because it sounds like this might be a long time.

And also, you know, once we have the air quality uh study, that that is really the consensus, or that is really the result of that study that we really have to implement those, then you know, maybe we can reprioritize and see.

One last comment I wanted to make, and I appreciate now, where are you?

Um, that it is uh kind of a separate, more direct, more kind of like this is what we're gonna do with air quality.

Reach code takes you said several trips uh to down the aisle.

Um, but I also wanted to um engage in the conversation, for example, um the the prop four that I keep on on mentioning proposition four, which is a California 2024 climate bond where all this money potentially couldn't come, can support the adoption and the implementation of local reach codes through various climate resilience and decarbonization programs.

So if we look into that and we find out, hey, air district has funds probably for this and for REACH code.

So it could be uh a dual conversation that we could potentially have.

Um so I don't want to completely isolate reach codes and say, oh, let's do one, because again, the conversation of funding can potentially we might find out that it it's doable in terms of being able to um have uh financial support to implement the staff want to weigh in.

Sure.

So if you uh so in terms of big picture context, obviously staff can do whatever council would like us to do.

We can't do everything, however, all at once at the same time.

Um so we have presented um a plan of what we can add that's in addition to what you all have already asked for.

Um we have asked that if we want to add something else, we take something out.

Um the re part of the reason that we were um looking at these particular things, um in particular in terms of model reach codes, the state building code is is becoming more and more aggressive.

Um and so these those essentially in many communities, they've decided to have the electrification programs kind of coincide with when the state building code changes.

Um it has been shown in other communities that um people do stop getting permits when they have to do these types of things.

So there is a safety issue.

I just want to repeat that part of it.

That's the one reason why at this point, given everything else, there is also, you know, the cost impacts as folks um have talked about.

Um I think the energy that is available from PGE.

If everybody was doing this all at once, now we're not proposing that, but if but PGE does not have enough energy to have all electric everything at this point.

That argument does not make sense to me because if then we should just halt all construction, just not add anything to the grid.

But we're not transitioning everything overnight, it's gonna take time.

Right.

Um I think that the substation that was talked to, my understanding is is that the substation that was mentioned um that's being considered on the east side is not about generation, it's about ensuring reliable power.

So I don't think that that's adding any capacity.

Um I don't have all of the details on that, but that is one component.

So um we absolutely can add this in, whether you want us to add it as a study or as you know, do this one particular thing without understanding all the ramifications and implications, um, we can do that, but we would like to take something else out.

So, with respect to the priorities that we already have, I would propose that we go through the priorities list that we've already set and we can add reach codes after if there was an order of operations.

So if the you am I understanding correctly, meaning if there's time and capacity in the current year that we would do that that we would add it, and if there's time and capacity from staff that we would do it in this year, is that what I'm understanding?

Yes.

Okay, so as long as it wasn't expected to that we would absolutely have because what I really want to make sure is that we can deliver on on these items um and not have such a long list that we are struggling or stressing out staff or delayed and everything's you know rushed and not a very good job at the end.

Can we look at the seven items or whatever it was again?

Yeah, they're up on the screen now are the seven additions.

Um, and noting that I withdrew my item.

Correct.

Right.

We also have as an attachment, I don't know, Rich, if you can put it up there.

We actually have the whole, um, you would be readopting it.

So we do have access to the entire list.

Are you asking us to remove one of the original priorities that you will that we looked at?

We you can right.

So the original plan that was adopted, we could take something else out of that original plan.

These were all just straight additions.

So I don't know if it's possible, Rich, for you to pull that up.

Council Mark Cohen, how how strongly tied are you to these and commercial zoning districts?

These are basically done.

Those are done?

Never mind, they're strongly tied to it.

So IT of possible uh attachment to to the staff report is the amended um action plan.

I don't know if that's possible to put that up on the screen, but if not, um council that is attachment to to the staff report.

Um we'll see what we can do to get up on the screen.

But if not, I think when we entered this discussion, we were talking about the first four items on the list that's currently on the screen, those are the ones that we had the capacity for.

To add, right, but but but the entire plan is one that um that we were looking at in total um in terms of capacity.

So I wanted to um if I could just I don't understand what the VLF communications plan really is.

Is it a communications to the residents to continue to email Diane Pappen and and Josh Beck?

I don't understand what that looks like and how much time that really requires, um, and what else is there?

Understanding that there is no permanent fix right now that they can do that we can't.

I mean, I think there's more leverage in us being able to talk to Townsend and being able to knock doors on in in the Capitol than in a communications plan for VLF, understanding that yes, we need to illustrate what this potentially uh could you know affect our our our our city, but I don't know how much more there needs to be staff time on this.

Um that would preclude other items from from being prioritized.

Because we're just basically sitting and waiting until so if if I may uh as as a person who suggested this I think there I mean this is such a wonky issue that not a lot of people know about and in a couple years we may be forced to make some tough decisions.

Maybe we raise revenue in some way maybe we make cuts.

Maybe we do both and once we do that I think our constituents our residents should know why.

We're not just doing it for fun right we're not just putting things on the ballot for fun.

We're doing it because Sacramento is placing us in this position where we're forced to make that decision I mean it's a 14 million dollar deficit that's that's not it it's not an easy uh situation to face and so you're exactly right you have to build a foundation looking at what could happen two years from now and the way I'm looking at it I don't mean I don't think we need to have one full time staff member doing VLF stuff for you know eight hours a day for for every day of the week what I mean is I think what you just put you know just putting a page on the website makes a lot of sense I think when it comes to whenever we're doing a town hall many of us like to do town halls.

We should talk about VLF.

It should be one of the first things we talk about whenever we have any other community meeting right uh where we're informing the public and maybe it's every single budget hearing that we have there should be an update on VLF because our constituents deserve to know our residents deserve to know um and if we're forced to make a decision in a couple years uh they should understand why.

Council member thank you for the comment uh not that I have a vote but uh what you were presented earlier and the previous agenda item that is a more expounded uh version of what I believe would be presented uh council member you mentioned town halls I'm I'm happy to do it present a more condensed version of that to make it um well known about what the issue is and and why and how it impacts them I'm happy to do it.

The issue for our residents is not just what's gonna happen within the confines of South San Francisco because if you look at the services that are gonna be impacted on the county level that's going to impact people's health and and so many other things.

So you know I I really when I look at those items and and recognize where we are right now with um our economic situation um where things are kind of stagnant out in the east of 101 seems like we could walk away from the CFD for the moment.

I agree because of the um uncertain economic conditions that we're facing right now.

We visit it later.

As long as we have in writing kind of what Matt had brought up right what the plan is and and at least have an outlined so that we can reference back and be able to pick it up whenever we're ready to do so.

So that would be a yes um pause on that and but as long as we have to take the CFD off and add the um reach code the elect yes.

That sounds like we're also taking off the VLF outreach for now as well too no I didn't hear that no okay it's it's the I feel like it's a minor item that flows into what we naturally do in the community and what we've already been doing.

But you said one item so it sounds like at least the CFD we can just put that on hold for now and substitute it with that other one.

Yes.

So that's satisfying the in the other items with with the um okay I think that's clear direction on just one last point that I want you to emphasize back to us is this like a calendar year by November December like what are you what's your timeline because obviously reach codes as we've heard are gonna bleed into next year and VLF and all of that so what are some that are actually going to happen these year in terms of us getting the information or staff researching more.

Right.

So we try to, so with the action plan, we try to think in a 12-month period.

There is always some sort of overlap and slight uh some some of these things will go on for years.

That's why potentially air quality could be one of them.

That's why we're pri we're trying to be have a discrete scope of work that we can deliver to you within 12 months.

So you all start this process in January.

We think about it in terms of a calendar year, but it also flows into our budget process, which is a fiscal year.

So July through June.

So all we try to do is make sure we're making significant progress within a 12-month period, whether that ends up becoming depending on when you actually finally adopt it and when we initiate it, whether that's a calendar year or a fiscal year.

And we always are very clear, which has been great about providing you all regular updates, and we will make sure when we get to the next priority setting session with council uh early next calendar year that we're clear, okay.

This needs to continue, or you know, we finished this one.

Um most of these items by the time we get to NASCAR January will be completed in terms of the discrete action.

It doesn't mean the whole topic will be sort of finished.

Um but that's where I want to make sure I can we want I appreciate this discussion and the clarity from you all because that's what we want to make sure we can I can hold staff accountable to delivering for you all.

Okay, and so I just want to be clear that what I'm hearing as a possible motion would be to adopt the plan um the revisions as presented, with the exception of removing the CFD item and adding in the reach codes um uh the electrical readiness.

Okay, well let's turn to the gentleman that started this discussion.

And is that your motion?

So moved.

I'll second.

Okay, motion and second and roll call.

Council Member Flores?

Yes.

Council Member Coleman?

Yes, Councilmember Nicholas.

Aye.

Mayor Diego?

Yes.

Vice Mayor Nogales.

Yes.

Thank you.

We're moving on to item number 22 is a report regarding a resolution affirming that the proposed consumer price index based adjustments to solid waste and biosolids transportation rates are consistent with the franchise agreement with the South San Francisco Scavenger Company.

Effective July 1st, 2026 2026.

Item 22A is a resolution.

Good evening.

Good evening, mayor, vice mayor, and members of the council.

My name is Yoon Jun Kim Public Works Director.

The item under consideration is for consumer price index based adjustments to solid waste collection and biosolids transportation rates in accordance with city's franchise agreement with South South San Francisco Scavengers Company.

Under the franchise agreement, solid waste collection rates are adjusted every three years based on a survey of comparable Bay Area agencies with incremental adjustments during the subsequent two years based on 80% of the CPI.

This is the second year of CPI adjustments from the base rate adjustment in 2024.

The proposed adjustments are intended to ensure continued compliance with the agreement while accounting for inflationary impacts, operational costs, and evolving state regulatory requirements, including SB 1383, which mandates related biosolids reuse into organic compost.

With us is South City Scavengers team, and David Button will give a nice presentation on what they do.

Thank you, Mr.

Kim.

Mayor Adiego, esteemed members of council staff.

Thank you for having me here today.

My name is David Button.

I'm here representing South San Francisco Scavenger, along with my colleagues Michael and Sabrina.

It's my pleasure to give you the 2026 update.

Next slide, please.

Oh, do I have the clicker?

Okay, gotcha.

Cool.

Um appreciate this opportunity.

We're gonna run through our equipment, uh, our annual on-call cleanups, our 1383 compliance is mentioned by Mr.

Kim, and how we support South San Francisco as a whole.

First, we'll run through our equipment uh as vehicles are retired or additional vehicles needed for compliance with any laws, including SB 1383.

Uh, we just add the most environmentally friendly and efficient vehicles available.

This year.

We receive three new front-end loaders around to be running around town, two side loaders with three more in order, one roll off with one more in order, and one rear load on order.

I've been assured by our purchasing folks that these delays will continue.

These were received from 2023.

And it just seems to be growing.

But we do our best.

Moving on, this year we did 8,054 on-call cleanups for the residents of South San Francisco alone.

I know that doesn't seem like everybody, but it's a huge numbers, it keeps growing year to year.

In December, we had our highest number of calls ever on one single day, mainly related to this.

It was all 700 in one day, which our staff was a little overwhelmed, but they got through it.

To let everybody know how to use these programs.

We are actually updating stuff currently and keep doing it.

But we advertise an all-quarterly residential, four-quarterly residential newsletters and our residential service guide.

We post reminders on social media multiple times.

We are active on Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok.

Check us out on there if you want.

Our services are also described in detail on our website, which we are currently revamping entirely to make it more user-customer friendly as well to help avoid those who don't want to make the calls, right?

Like we want to make it easier for people to just get this on the schedule with us and just get it out there and get it done and use these services and get the city cleaned up to help stop illegal dumping and things like that.

You can see some examples in our presentation of our social media post and our quarterly newsletters there.

Moving on to SB 1383 compliance.

So far this year, we've assisted city staff with being compliant with 1383.

We know it's a mandate to reduce methane from our landfills.

In order to do that, we're providing green bins, slim gins, kitchen pails, recycle totes, educational handouts, and assistance to uh businesses and residences alike.

We've been working with city staff, Murray, to streamline and expedite the compliance process.

Uh through this increased compliance, we've actually gotten uh about 80% uh participation throughout the city, which is a big increase, right?

There's always the outliers, and we're working hard to keep getting to them and have them focus on doing uh uh the right thing.

Um we've also added to previously non-compliant agreement bins to non-compliant HOAs, multiple of which were operating in the city, and we found ways to have them fit cans that previously they wouldn't fit.

Uh we are, as I mentioned, our outreach fleet is going out in electric vehicles, but part of that is lid flipping.

So that is our checking what's in the cans to help educate the residents and uh business owners and multifamily properties, what properly goes where.

Um, and we've been we did 90% more lid flips this year than last year.

We are out there actively in the community daily doing this, and we're actually started leaving thank you notes to those who are doing it right, not just the negative ones where if you look at the next one I'm showing you on here, um, we have an oh no list where it says please don't put this stuff in these cans.

Um, you know, eventually the state is talking about how to make people comply.

We're trying to educate those to that doesn't happen, right?

Um, so we're we're looking at putting more of the thank yous out there than anything else.

That's our main goal.

Um, but again, we have to do this lid flipping as part of our requirement under SB 1383, where we have to tell people what they're doing.

So that's why we're out there.

We're not in there spying on what people are throwing away.

Uh it's it we don't want to know your stuff.

We're literally doing it just to keep everybody educated of what's happening in the state.

Um, moving on, how we support the city and what we're doing.

Um, we worked with code enforcement to work with either removal or reporting of 40 illegal roll-offs, those are non-franchise roll-offs that are growing number in the city.

You know, it's unregulated waste, we don't know where it goes, we don't know how it's how it's diverted.

Um, so working with city staff to do that, but then we also provide service to 23 city uh community events, including uh concert in the park, touch a truck, and many others.

Um, we're always setting it up and put slim gyms out in Orange Park or anywhere else.

Um, and you know, one of our biggest things we do for uh the schools at South San Francisco is we host tours almost weekly this time of year.

We actually have Westboro sixth grade class coming through on Friday.

Um, sort of nice to see the kids out in the community learning about what to do, the proper ways to recycle.

They always love to come and see our digester, they get to feed it.

Um, if you guys have ever been out there and done that, it's sort of funny to watch them do it.

Um, but yeah, that's that's really our presentation for the year.

Any questions I could answer for you guys or city staff or let's see question?

I think you might have answered already.

Uh I appreciate kind of the lid flipping and just checking.

Because you know, people they don't follow the rules sometimes that they just throw things in different bins.

So it sounds like if there is gonna be some sort of penalty or it looks like it's gonna come from the state and anything.

In the current regulations of SB 1383, there's already a framework for it of how it should work.

They have suggestions, they're not really suggestions, there's levels of what they suggest be done.

Um there are communities in the East Bay that are already doing it through their organizations.

It's it's more from it's not done by companies, it would be done from a regulatory enforcement standpoint typically.

Um there are different ways to work together with cities and or if there was a JPA like they operate down in the South Bay, that's who would be doing it type of thing.

Um, but that's not mandatory.

It's not mandatory at all.

Like I I know currently in the in Alameda County, they are doing it for commercial large generators as a first target, um, where they're non-compliant.

And I think they put out reports in 2024, they issued like 5,000 violations right away.

Um, and it was large revenue for for that organization.

Uh, they're expensive.

They're they're the fines to get businesses on board with 1383 and what to do and how to promote um you know organics uh basically composting.

So they're kind of leaving my next question.

So you're not seeing large companies kind of doing it incorrectly.

It's mostly just residents are just it's it's not learning how to do we're teaching everybody, it's across the board.

When's when there's a generator or commercial business that isn't doing something properly, we go out and we work with them, we have outreach professionals that actually go meet with them, and we do it for even the East of Grand Group.

We'll have workshops at uh some of the biotechs, they invite us in, we meet with the uh operational staff of the building.

Sometimes we meet with each individual floor, and they'll have like a big group setting, and then we literally pull out stuff and put it in bins in front of them because it does differ differ from city to city across the state, and it all really depends on where the end product goes.

We start with us, we we put most of it through our anaerobic digester, um, and then that compostate after it goes through our process to get the gas ends up going to another facility, and 60 days later it's dirt.

Well, the other facilities really dictate what we can allow.

Yeah, right.

So currently we allow you know paper products that are soiled and and certain things, while other communities I've heard like in Monterey County, know more of that.

They can't handle it at their uh comp composters facilities.

So they as the amounts increase, there's gonna be new changes, and it's constantly changing.

Thank you.

Just wanted to uh quickly give you a shout out.

I know I talked to David about your the marketing strategy and just the communication, how it's changed, and I've seen it change, and it's done a lot of uh great um impact for the community and for uh um both homeowners and and tenants as well for you guys to be pushing that out in social media, so appreciate that very much.

Thank you.

So I I do have a question.

Um yeah.

So I know you offer, and this has probably been asked before, but I know you offer two free cleanups per year for single family homes.

Is there any effort to extend that to multifamily, still working with the city on that?

We're still in discussions with all that stuff.

Yeah.

Thank you.

Thank you very much for the presentation.

I know that you and you know, Theresa is all working hard with the students.

I know for a fact that I have visited uh Westboro Middle School and they're working with the Planetarist Club.

Even at St.

Augustine, they really really know how to um go to the composting and and all of those uh things that you have taught them very well.

So they really love uh working with you.

Um I really can't say anything anymore because I like that you're electrifying also your vehicles.

Uh I like the zero carbon uh that you're working on, so I can say enough.

Thank you.

Well, thank you for having us today.

Any other questions?

Feel free to reach out.

Uh always do tours and stuff as well, too.

Always welcome by.

Okay, thank you.

Well, thank you for the presentation, and thank you for joining us this evening.

And you know, some things never change now.

You know, the last names really don't change that much, but the faces certainly change greatly.

But then for MOSA and Vertoli.

Oh, that's right, that's right.

You're missing the Pal Boosters uh installation, too.

But one other item that doesn't change is you're always last on the agenda.

You get you're giving us lessons, you're giving us lessons about you know um the right way to recycle.

So we can end it on a happiness.

Almost every year.

Pretty great, huh?

It's not bad.

Okay, so we need a motion on this uh item.

So moved.

I'll second.

Okay, motion and second on the floor.

Mayor Adiego?

Yes, Vice Mayor Nogales?

Yes, Councilmember Flores?

Yes.

Councilmember Nicholas, Councilmember Coleman.

Yes.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

Thank you, guys.

Thank you very much.

We now move on to item number 23, which is a report regarding a resolution of the city council supporting the city county association of governments of San Mateo County, CCAG, 2026 San Bruno South San Francisco Community Based Transportation Plan.

Item 23A is a resolution.

Hi, good evening, mayor, council members.

Um I am very happy to introduce our colleagues at CCAG uh who will be presenting on this item.

I've had the pleasure of working with the CCAG team and the MIT team along with um my colleague Matt Rubel, uh principal engineer for the past I guess year and a half on this community-based transportation plan.

So we're excited to give you an overview of the project.

So um tonight, Noe Noah Noyola from MIG, our consulting firm, um, or the consulting firm will be giving the presentation.

And he is joined tonight by Kaki Chung, who is the acting executive director of CCAG.

So I'll pass the mic to them.

Okay, thank you so much for the introduction and good evening, uh Mayor Adego and uh council members.

Uh thank you so much for having me here.

Um, like um, yeah, as a as she mentioned, I'm Kaki Chung, I'm the acting executive director for CCAG, we're the uh city and council county association of governments for Samateo County.

We work collaboratively with our 21 local jurisdictions to uh implement uh transportation projects, stormwater and sustainability projects, um, all the initiatives that aim to benefit our Semateo County residents.

Um we're here tonight to request your support um for the community-based transportation plan.

Um, this effort is really built on a very extensive um public and community outreach process, and we're focusing on identifying transportation improvements that are equity-based and really responsive to all the mobility needs of the residents in the community.

Um I just want to note that in addition to this planning effort, we have just uh released a call of a project, making available um close to 30 million dollars for transportation funding.

So we encourage that the city apply, and as part of that program, we have specifically reserved about um 1.3 million to help advance projects that are identified in this community-based transportation plan, really aiming to move projects from the planning into design and getting it shovel ready.

So, yeah, with that, I'll just um pass the mic over to Noe um with our consultant team who will give you additional details.

Thank you.

Thank you, Katie.

Uh good evening, uh mayor, council.

Uh my name is Noen Noyola, I work with MIG.

Good to see you all again.

Appreciate the time being here.

And um, see, I just have a very brief presentation for you.

I know it's late in the day, so this is a joint partnership between obviously CCAG, but MTC is the overall funder, and then uh also a partnership with uh South uh South San Francisco and San Bruno.

So those are the the groups that are all playing a part here.

This is a regional partnership, like I said, regional level plans throughout the Bay Area, of course.

Uh yours is one of those, is all funded by by MTC.

There is this uh focus on EPCs, the equity priority communities, and those are found throughout the Bay Area.

These are essentially uh low-income census tracts with that um that really just are under-served to to be you know perfectly clear.

Now, the the issue is that there is actually funding not only as Kaki mentioned, but also from MTC, so there are funding programs tied to this effort.

The key goal, of course, is to improve transportation options and mobility for the residents within these areas, and that's overall the main uh push for this.

Now you see these two maps, uh, one is from 2012, the other's more current, and uh the only differ difference here is that uh San Bruno, um, one of the the EPCs was removed one of the census tracks for you.

You have four of the six in South San Francisco, these are west of downtown, Paradise Valley, Old Town, and Lyndonville.

Those are the four areas which essentially remained unchanged for you.

Uh the CBTP elements um just to go over them quickly.

It does require needs assessment to determine where the challenges are, uh, where the issues uh that this that the community sees.

It does ask for a very specific geographic location, so to pinpoint locations, we did have a geographic map, mapping exercise, and then the resolution the strategies, sorry, the recommendations come in the form of either strategies, projects, and or programs.

So those are the three kind of categories that you'll see.

And at the end of the day, we do want an implementation uh plan that uh suggests funding and uh potential costs.

Lastly, there will be monitoring aspects to this, and so I'll talk a little bit more about that.

As mentioned, we do try to get into the community, and we tried very hard here doing pop-ups with uh CB uh CBOs at you know some of the local bakeries and uh markets and uh working again with CBOs, providing stipends where we could.

It was quite fun.

Here we are at uh in front of also church.

The main ask for us uh that we had for the community was what are your transportation challenges?

We try to keep it simple, what are the challenges that you experience, and then what improvement improvements would you make?

And then within that, where would that be?

So these were the fundamental questions that we asked.

And so I think this is probably nothing new to you.

I think we've provided some of this information, but in essence, it's expensive to move around in the city.

Um it's uh it's quite a barrier.

Safety is also kind of a concern in terms of just moving around without a car.

Uh, particularly safer to it's the issue is it's not safe in various locations to walk, particularly for young people around school.

So several of the recommendations were focused on that.

Uh roadway conditions are always going to be an issue.

Uh potholes, which I'm sure you can understand.

The one here that expanding transit services, I think was a very big one.

There's a lot of folks that are left out because they're not working traditional jobs, so working late into the evening or in the weekends, transit is limited, not as frequent, and so that causes a disruption to their lives.

It's important.

Um, the free shuttle that you have is excellent, and people wanted to have more of that, obviously.

Uh funny, the there was an awareness or lack of awareness in some of these programs, so that was important to be thinking about how do you improve people's knowledge of things, and then finally just prioritize the neighborhoods in these equitable with equitable equitable investments in these specific neighborhoods.

There's a bit of a eye test here, but you can see the several strategies are in response to um to those challenges, safety, cost barriers, pedestrian and bike gaps, uh, more transit, especially late night, and then awareness building, and finally um a focus on the underserved communities.

There are total of 36 recommendations.

Um, again, a bit of an eye test, but you can see some of these are very specific to you.

Like the one on the right is uh related to Centennial Trail and some enhancements and some gaps in connectivity, some lighting issues that are there.

But the the big piece is in terms of why, what what made these recommendations important?

Community benefits have to be there, there have to be uh an extent uh improved mobility to some extent.

It's really critical.

The funding potential for each of these improvements is really important as well.

And then, of course, the ease of implementation.

How easy can we get to these quickly?

And I think that was really good.

Now, these are just, of course, draft, and you have to approve them.

It has to go through the city process and ultimately through city council for you to have uh have these in place.

And lastly, we do have to track progress over time.

This is one of the conditions.

Now, this is coordinated by by CCAG.

Uh there is uh yearly presentation that has to go to your BPAC as well, so you'll be hearing more about this uh as we move forward.

And that's it.

I was asked to be brief.

I hope I was any questions that we might be able to or comments that we're able to address.

Thank you, Colin.

Go ahead.

Uh first of all, Sean, welcome.

Um many of us have worked with your predecessor.

We look for we're looking forward to working with you.

Um, I appreciate this as someone who has biked on Centennial Trail.

I've always turned around.

I got to the end just before the San Bruno, because there's no extension.

And I know there's been some federal funding and to kind of complete that that line, and I think it would be really really important that we do so because it connects right into the Cal Trade Station.

And for those folks who are use BART, that's great.

But those folks are coming from the south, use Caltrain, there's not really a protected bike lane there.

And that that scares people off, especially in that area right there.

And so if we can do that, I appreciate kind of a lot of the folks kind of talking about that in terms of completing that trail.

Uh I would really appreciate it.

Um, shuttles, absolutely, that those are very, very key.

We've seen it in terms of how our folks have been going around South San Francisco.

Our model shuttle service has been uh kind of followed and copied by other cities to try to replicate it.

And it's interesting that you brought up that not everyone works on normal nine to five schedule.

I've heard that too.

Like, well, I work late.

The shuttle doesn't serve me.

And I think what you're gonna see is in order for that to happen, you also have that ridership, right?

You gotta have the demand.

Because one of the things we look at is like, well, how expensive is it for us to fund the shuttle, right?

And that's gonna be really key in terms of indicators.

But I I appreciate these um kind of uh priorities.

I appreciate you going out to the community and listening to um to their priorities and just having the conversations because there is a demand there for better infrastructure.

I think that's just showing that.

So, sure.

Um so my question is you know, one of the big concerns that was brought up in the presentation is cost of transportation.

Um are you talking about like bridge fares, the cost of gas, the cost of a car, the cost of a BART ticket, a cow train ticket, transferring between both, like what what sort of costs are folks feeling right now?

You know, um the way the way that I understood it is that one, I think the the easy answer is everything, right?

Gas is expensive as six dollars a gas, six dollars a gallon.

I mean, uh BART is expensive, everything is seems to be expensive except walking and biking, and even that can be expensive.

It's it's taken.

I think that the bigger issue, the bigger takeaway is the proportion of transportation budget that that low income households have to have in order to you know to move around.

So it just takes up more of their proportional uh more of their their household budget, and that's that's the real takeaway.

But I mean, you know, we didn't get into any specific data numbers, it was what people were saying that is just very expensive to move around.

A car plus uh, you know, you try to move around on on transit, and it's again there's limitations, so uh takes longer time uh to move on transit, so then you know, I have to pay for a babysitter or longer time babysitter, those kinds of things that we are hearing from uh more uh I guess nuanced perspective instead of a larger um trends perspective.

I hope that answers your question.

Or starts to at least starts to, yeah.

I feel like a big component is, you know, oftentimes folks, when it gets from place to place, it's not just taking one transit agency.

Sometimes they have to take multiple, multiple, right?

And we just don't have the level of fair integration that's right now that many other communities do.

That's right.

Um and so you know, for example, if you're taking Caltrain and you have to transfer to Bart at Millbrae, and then you have to take Muni, you're paying three fares, and it's yes, and not only that, but people were not very aware of um the various discounts or how to achieve them, how to get them.

For example, for BART offers a senior discount, a youth discount, but they're not like accessible everywhere.

You have to go to specific locations to get them.

And so those were some of the things that actually be in some of the sessions, it became educational sessions.

You just mentioned the three different uh transit system that you had to you know opt into to get, and so we we just started talking about like apps, you know, and how you can actually you know put up pull up the transit app, and that tells you on demand basically time uh that the next bus is coming and then how you would link to one one of the things.

So a lot of these sessions actually became the focus groups, especially became um more educational sessions, and I think that's part of what we're what we're seeing is that people don't know that things are available.

The shuttle, despite its popularity, is also seem to be like, oh, really?

There's a fo where does it go?

So there seems to be that, even though people in San Bruno, we want a shuttle like South Cities.

So it was, you know, so when you do get the senior student discount, is it attached to your clippers?

So you only have to do it once?

Right, okay.

Thank you.

Yep, that's right.

Uh floor?

Yes.

Thank you very much for the presentation.

Currently, we have visitors from Kishiwada, one of our sister cities, and last night's conversation was you know how it's coming from their perspective.

And their question was, why does everybody have a car?

And I said that's because our transportation infrastructure is not as mature as it is in Japan.

And this is really a necessity, and not.

So on this um community CBC communication, community-based uh transportation planning.

I was just wondering, why are we just focusing on San Bruno and South San Francisco?

Whereas we're boarded by Daily City and Colma.

Um we're also bordered by Brisbane and uh and and the Southwest and West Southwest is Pacifica.

Uh I'm pretty sure there are EPCs on those areas too.

So why is it not uh looking at the whole uh neighbors?

Right.

So the way that uh a good way to understand this is to explain it, is to see this as a layer.

This is one focused layer in a bigger puzzle, right?

So the bigger layer is MTC and all of those questions that you're talking about, the connections to Pacifica and Daily City and regionally, I came from the East Bay today, and I made that choice to drive instead of taking BART.

Why?

Well, because it was gonna take me longer.

And at the end of the day, it's gonna take me 20 minutes to get home as opposed to an hour and a half to get home.

So people are making these choices all the time, right?

But for us, for the CBTP, the reason, the specific reason that we're focusing on is because of your census tracks.

There are specific census tracks that MTC has selected in order to focus on, and that's in essence, it's lower income.

There's a profile to these census tracks that um, you know, from 2012, like I said, only one has changed uh substantially that it has been removed.

And the reason for that is the one that is west of um, I'm sorry, east of San Bruno Bart, that area just right across the the street, and that's because the demographics changed, they got wealthier.

Right, but I would think that their APCs also like in the city in Colma.

Yeah, I mean, those are those are good questions.

I I don't fully know the answer as to why only these and and um not the others.

I don't know.

And I'll just add that um we do these plans maybe on a phased basis.

So this round we're focusing on San Bruno and South San Francisco.

The previous round we focus on daily city.

So we're kind of taking turn and focusing on specific areas and adopting those and renewing them as time goes.

So it's a good start then.

Thank you.

Thanks.

Um thank you.

Uh good to see you, Noah and Khaki, of course, always.

Um I was really reassured when your part and your team um were part of the engagement process here in District 5.

MIG better watch it because we might need to steal you away because our neighbors are getting to know you so well and and trust the education information you're giving them as we you outreach.

Um, I'm really glad to support this this project and this resolution because I want to take a moment to say that this is this what I hope this plan actually delivers for our residents, and as you know, you've become very familiar with old town and downtown.

Um, these communities around district five, many who are working families are seniors and people who depend on buses and shuttles to get to work, have told me that just like they told you that connectivity is one of their biggest daily challenges.

So you further um highlighted the importance of why we need to continue as a city to support our promotores program because they're the ones that are informing um our seniors, our monolingual and and multilingual uh community members of things such as the free shuttle and and discount passes.

I have been, you know, preaching everyone, hey, you get a new gift card, go to the YMCA, you can apply, you know, it's a commuter card, it's a gift card, and and those types of resources, but really um, you know, getting from east to south city to BART, getting from residential neighborhoods to job centers, getting around without a car, these are not abstract planning goals as we've seen it from our constituents.

They are that's their daily routines.

Um, I always, whenever we're get presented with something like this, which by the way, I should pause and say that all of the aid through age categories, I wanted to test them out myself, and I drove around.

I wanted to see what they had told you, like the Maple Avenue stop and this bus shelter, and they hit it right on the head with all of these are extremely needed.

Like if there was a wish list for this part of town, that's exactly what I'm glad that these groups were able to be very honest and and up um come up with great ideas and and and solutions.

So I always want to make sure that this plan doesn't just sit on a shelf.

Um, and maybe this uh is more question for for Megan.

So, what is our implementation timeline?

Um, and um I'll start with that question um in terms of like the budgeting of this um uh and how are we gonna see it roll out um because that's what all also my constituents and our residents always ask, right?

I gave you all feedback.

Where did that feedback go and how where when are we gonna see it?

Yeah, that's a great question.

So um, as we completed the implementation section of the plan, um we worked uh closely with our engineering team to take a look at the projects and see how they melded in with our capital improvement planning.

Um so some of the projects will be able to be um covered by some of our CIP projects.

Um other projects are underway, um, like our El Comuna Real Mobility Plan is really focused on El Comuna Real.

So that project really speaks to some of the recommendations in that way.

Um, and then there's some other projects that will be in partnership with Sam Trans or Caltrans or Rhine South City.

Uh so we have um ongoing partnerships and collaborations with those organizations, and so we'll be bringing those um to to the conversation to the table with our partner agencies.

Okay, and then I noticed we approved on consent earlier on um a uh active transportation grant application.

So, how does this plan interact with some of those elements that we're potentially getting funded?

I see Matt coming up.

And I was thinking, I hope that's coming up.

And thank thank you for sticking around to the last item because I see a lot of overlap, right?

There were some a lot of items on both.

Are we able to utilize some of those funds for this?

Um, so thank you for bringing that up.

There is a lot of overlap between the work that's identified in our CIP plan and what this uh good project is highlighting.

Um, one of the benefits of having a plan like this in place is it enables us to really go after a lot more grant funding because not only do we have a document that we can reference, but the extensive amount of outreach and the community involvement really help us maximize our points.

Specifically for the ATP grant cycle we're applying for, those projects are both on the east of 101, so really kind in our downtown through our Caltrain station uh to the bay trail going up north and continuing east along East Grand Avenue.

Um so I don't believe those specifically identified in this program, but um that is the kind of like uh projects that we're looking to work together.

Just because I saw the connectivity to Caltrain station, that's why I thought it was kind of really similar.

Yeah, okay.

Thank you.

Appreciate that.

Thank you both.

Appreciate the information.

Thank you for the presentation.

Any other questions?

So if not, we're looking for um support for the uh community-based transportation.

Happy to move and make that motion.

Excellent.

Motion on the floor, second, and a second, roll call.

Vice Mayor Nogales?

Yes, Councilmember Coleman?

Yes, Councilmember Flores?

Yes, Councilmember Nicholas, Mayor Adiego.

Yes, thank you.

We now move on to items from council committee reports and announcements.

Any last minute items?

I just wanted to um inform the colleagues that um on Friday, um, Councilman Flores has agreed to do double duty.

So he's going to be at um council of cities uh in Burlingame to vote for the um two members that uh are running unopposed.

Correct.

Um for Hart and uh Lato.

And then he will join us at the 75th anniversary.

Extravaganza.

And I've signed the proxy for him.

Yep.

Thank you, Mr.

Mayor.

Thank you for doing both.

Um, if there's nothing else, we'll next item.

Thank you.

Moving on to closed session item number 24 is a conference with real property negotiators pursuant to government code section 54956.8.

Property is 905 Linden Avenue, APN number 012-101-100.

City negotiators, Pierce Abrahamson, management analyst to Mike Nochi, Housing Manager, Nell Sealander, Economic and Community Development Director, and Sky Woodrow City Attorney, negotiating party habitat for humanity greater San Francisco under negotiations price and term.